Antonyms of adj colourless

2 senses of colourless

Sense 1
colorless (vs. colorful), colourless (vs. colourful) -- (lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the parade")

colorful (vs. colorless), colourful (vs. colourless) -- (striking in variety and interest; "a colorful period of history"; "a colorful character"; "colorful language")
        => brave, braw, gay -- (brightly colored and showy; "girls decked out in brave new dresses"; "brave banners flying"; "`braw' is a Scottish word"; "a dress a bit too gay for her years"; "birds with gay plumage")
        => flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty -- ((used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display)
        => many-sided -- (full of variety or interest; "a many-sided personality")
        => noisy -- (attracting attention by showiness or bright colors; "a noisy sweater")
        => picturesque -- (strikingly expressive; "a picturesque description of the rainforest")

Sense 2
colorless (vs. colorful), colourless -- (weak in color; not colorful)


Similarity of adj colourless

2 senses of colourless

Sense 1
colorless (vs. colorful), colourless (vs. colourful) -- (lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the parade")
       => neutral -- (lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics; "a neutral personality that made no impression whatever")
       => pale, pallid -- (lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance")
          Also See-> dull#1

Sense 2
colorless (vs. colorful), colourless -- (weak in color; not colorful)
       => ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white -- (anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage")
       => bleached, faded, washed-out, washy -- (having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors")
       => drab, sober, somber, sombre -- (lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes")
       => dulled, greyed -- (deprived of color; "colors dulled by too much sun"; "greyed with the dust of the road")
       => etiolate, etiolated, blanched -- ((especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery")
       => lurid -- (ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence")
       => pale, pallid, wan -- (abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed")
       => pasty, pastelike -- (resembling paste in color; pallid; "he looked pasty and red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white")
       => prefaded -- ((of fabric or clothing) having been given a faded (weathered) appearance by artificial means)
       => waxen, waxlike, waxy -- (having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness")
       => white, whitened -- ((of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age")
          Also See-> achromatic#1, neutral#5

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