| Main Entry: | colorless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without hue |
Synonyms: |
achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bleached, cadaverous, doughy, drab, dull, faded, flat, ghastly, livid, lurid, neutral, pale, sickly, uncolored, wan, washed out, waxen, white |
Antonyms: |
brilliant, colored, colorful, motley, rich, stimulating, vibrant, vivid |
| Main Entry: | colorless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unlively, uninteresting |
Synonyms: |
characterless, dreary, dull, insipid, lackluster, lifeless, prosaic, run-of-the-mill, tame, unmemorable, unpassioned, vacuous, vapid |
Antonyms: |
brilliant, distinctive, intense, interesting, lively, stimulating, vibrant |
| Main Entry: | arid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uninterested, spiritless |
Synonyms: |
boring, colorless, drab, dreary, dry, dull, flat, insipid, lackluster, lifeless, tedious, unanimated, uninspired, vapid, wearisome |
Antonyms: |
interested, lively, spirited |
| Main Entry: | ashen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gray |
Synonyms: |
anemic, blanched, cadaverous, colorless, ghastly, gray, leaden, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan, white |
| Main Entry: | bloodless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale |
Synonyms: |
anemic, ashen, cadaverous, chalky, colorless, ghostly, lifeless, pallid, pasty, sallow, sickly, wan, watery |
Antonyms: |
blushing, flushed, rosy, ruddy, sanguine |
| Main Entry: | boring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uninteresting |
Synonyms: |
arid, bomb*, bromidic, bummer, characterless, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, drudging, dull, flat*, ho hum, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten, mundane, nothing, nowhere, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, wearisome, well-worn, zero* |
Antonyms: |
exciting, fascinating, interesting |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | low, coarse |
Synonyms: |
Philistine, baseborn, characterless, cheap, colorless, crass, declassé, hack, hackneyed, impure, inferior, low-grade, mean, middling, nondescript, passable, pedestrian, plebeian, poor, prosy, raffish, second-class, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, stale, trite, undistinguished, vulgar |
| Notes: | mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead |
Antonyms: |
aristocratic, cultured, excellent, high, noble, refined, sophisticated, superior |
| Main Entry: | commonplace |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, everyday |
Synonyms: |
boiler plate, characterless, clichéd, colorless, conventional, corny*, customary, dime-a-dozen, familiar, familiar tune, garden variety, hackneyed, humdrum, lowly, mainstream, matter-of-course, mediocre, middle-of-the-road, middling, mundane, natural, normal, obvious, ordinary, pedestrian, plebeian, prevalent, prosaic, run-of-the-mill, stale, starch, stereotyped, threadbare, trite, typical, uneventful, unexceptional, uninteresting, unnoteworthy, vanilla, widespread, workaday, worn-out |
Antonyms: |
exceptional, infrequent, peculiar, rare, uncommon, unusual |
| Main Entry: | dingy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | soiled, tacky |
Synonyms: |
bedimmed, broken-down, colorless, dark, darkish, dilapidated, dim, dirty, discolored, drab, dreary, dull, dusky, faded, gloomy, grimy, muddy, murky, obscure, run-down, seedy, shabby, smirched, somber, sullied, tarnished, threadbare, tired |
Antonyms: |
bright, clean, immaculate, neat, pure, spotless |
| Main Entry: | dreary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, lifeless |
Synonyms: |
black, blah, bleak, boring, cheerless, colorless, comfortless, damp, depressing, depressive, dingy, dismal, dispiriting, doleful, downcast, drab, dull, forlorn, funereal, glum, humdrum, joyless, lonely, lonesome, melancholy, monotonous, mournful, oppressive, pedestrian, raw, routine, sad, somber, sorrowful, tedious, uneventful, uninteresting, wearisome, windy, wintry, wretched |
Antonyms: |
bright, clear, happy, light, pleasant |