单词 | colourless |
释义 | colourlessWord family (noun) colour/color colouring/coloring coloration colourant/colorant colourist/colorist (adjective) coloured/colored discoloured/discolored colourful/colorful ≠ colourless/colorless multicoloured colour/color (verb) colour/color (adverb) colourfully/colorfully ≠ colourlessly/colorlessly From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcolourlesscol‧our‧less British English, colorless American English /ˈkʌlələs $ ˈkʌlər-/ adjective1 COLOUR/COLORhaving no colour a colourless odourless gas2 if your face, hair, eyes, skin, or lips are colourless, they are very pale, usually because you are ill or frightened3 BORINGnot interesting or exciting SYN dull his colourless personality —colourlessly adverbExamples from the Corpuscolourless• The glare of the nauseous streetlights which made the world faceless and colourless.• Woolley's training programme was grindingly hard, tent-life cold, wet and colourless, and the news from the front depressing.• Everything was grey, wet and colourless as we stood by the rail watching the luggage being unloaded into the custom sheds.• Tait stroked his beard again with long, elegant fingers, appraising her with colourless eyes.• Until you looked into his strangely colourless eyes.• Standing at the right angle, we are dazzled by the colours of the rainbow in colourless ice.• They were slim, pale and elegant, and she wore colourless or pearl nail varnish.• I dimly remembered having watched the sun set, copper orange over a colourless world. |
随便看 |
英语词典包含170365条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。