colourless

CEFRB2

/ˈkʌlə(ɹ).ləs/

adjective

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I can't imagine how much more colourless life would be without multiple languages.
Colourless is a world without language.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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The servant to whom he put this question was a young fellow with chubby cheeks, small, dull eyes, and a round chin, covered with a colorless down.
Behind him the hills are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give an unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless.
They cannot, of course, assume a colourless position because they cater to the radical rank and file and would be branded renegades.

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The servant to whom he put this question was a young fellow with chubby cheeks, small, dull eyes, and a round chin, covered with a colorless down.
1867, Ivan Sergheïevitch Turgenef [i.e., Ivan Turgenev], chapter I, in Eugene Schuyler, transl., Fathers and Sons […], New York, N.Y.: Leypoldt and Holt, →OCLC, page 1
Behind him the hills are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give an unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless.
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 14
The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead.
1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7
They cannot, of course, assume a colourless position because they cater to the radical rank and file and would be branded renegades.
1926, David Joseph Saposs, Left Wing Unionism: A Study of Radical Policies and Tactics, page 73

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From colour + -less.