Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of hue or color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of color.
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- adjective Without
hue ;colourless .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of something totally lacking in saturation and therefore having no hue
Etymologies
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Examples
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The lips opened to smile, the teeth were faultless; an effect was produced, if a cold one -- the colder for the unparticipating northern eyes; eyes of that half cloud and blue, which make a kind of hueless grey, and are chiefly striking in an authoritative stage.
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The lips opened to smile, the teeth were faultless; an effect was produced, if a cold one -- the colder for the unparticipating northern eyes; eyes of that half cloud and blue, which make a kind of hueless grey, and are chiefly striking in an authoritative stage.
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The lips opened to smile, the teeth were faultless; an effect was produced, if a cold one -- the colder for the unparticipating northern eyes; eyes of that half cloud and blue, which make a kind of hueless grey, and are chiefly striking in an authoritative stage.
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Nor did he speak or bother to come to the window when later they crossed a wide, hueless bend of the Yangtze River and pulled into the city of Chongqing.
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Nor did he speak or bother to come to the window when later they crossed a wide, hueless bend of the Yangtze River and pulled into the city of Chongqing.
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She was fastening into her girdle a hueless and scentless nosegay, when Henry Sympson called to her as he came limping from the house.
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Nor did he speak or bother to come to the window when later they crossed a wide, hueless bend of the Yangtze River and pulled into the city of Chongqing.
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Nor did he speak or bother to come to the window when later they crossed a wide, hueless bend of the Yangtze River and pulled into the city of Chongqing.
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Nor did he speak or bother to come to the window when later they crossed a wide, hueless bend of the Yangtze River and pulled into the city of Chongqing.
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Nor did he speak or bother to come to the window when later they crossed a wide, hueless bend of the Yangtze River and pulled into the city of Chongqing.
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