huelessadj.
/ˈhjuːlɪs/ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > lack of shape > [adjective]
huelessa1100
shapelessa1400
globose?a1425
deformed1555
fashionless1581
disformed1591
formless1591
unshapeful1598
figureless1606
informous1610
proportionless1625
unbodied1630
unshapable1630
misshapen1640
unshapeless1640
difform1644
inform1654
difformed1665
amorphous1727
amorphic1856
a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 318/24 Deformis, hiwleas.
a1200 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 538/1 Deformis, heowleas.
2. Colourless, pallid.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [adjective]
huelessc1000
whiteOE
plainc1330
uncoloured1538
undyed1538
colourless1610
blank1667
unteinted1745
achromatic1759
achromic1762
etiolated1784
tintless1789
unshaded1823
achromatous1845
untinted1849
unpigmented1853
achromatistous1878
achromous1878
achroous1878
decolorized1879
etiolized1880
untoned1897
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 242 Hu hiwlease hie beoð.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 923 Olyuer..Þat hewles was of semblant for he bar many a wounde.
1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 57 The Empire resembled a bloodlesse yea a huelesse bodie.
1828 S. T. Coleridge in Amulet 46 Thin and hueless as a ghost.
c1865 E. Dickinson Poems (1955) II. 737 I sight the Aprils—Hueless to me until thou come.
1932 G. K. Chesterton Chaucer viii. 264 The sort of harsh and hueless light that can be seen in the black engravings in the old Family Bibles.
Derivatives
ˈhuelessness n. absence of colour.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [noun]
uncolouredness1660
colourlessness1672
achromatism1797
achromaticity1821
blankness1850
huelessness1861
mirage1927
1861 W. Barnes in Macmillan's Mag. June 130/2 Huelessness, which is called black.
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adj.c1000