Word · Frequency #16173
colorless
枯燥乏味的；平淡无奇的；无趣的
核心释义
此处指缺乏变化和趣味，不是指没有颜色。
lacking in variety and interest; dull
- 1.
缺乏多样性和趣味
lacking in variety and interest
- 2.
颜色淡的；不鲜艳的
weak in color; not colorful
缺乏多样性和趣味；颜色淡的；不鲜艳的；无色的；[建] 无色
用法In use
The story was so colorless that I fell asleep halfway through.
用法提示：colorless 此处表示故事平淡无趣、缺乏吸引力。
His colorless voice made the lecture hard to enjoy.
用法提示：colorless 用来形容声音单调乏味、缺乏感染力。
She gave a colorless performance that left the audience bored.
用法提示：colorless 形容表演缺乏趣味和活力，令人乏味。
a colorless and unimaginative person
a colorless description of the parade
find sb/sth colorless
colorless 常用于宾语补足语结构，表示“觉得……乏味、无趣”。
相关词与表达Connections
搭配Collocations
- colorless personality
- 乏味的个性
- His colorless personality made him hard to remember.他无趣的性格让人很难记住他。
- colorless prose
- 枯燥乏味的文笔
- The report was full of colorless prose and statistics.这份报告满篇都是枯燥乏味的文字和统计数据。
- colorless life
- 单调乏味的生活
- She longed to escape her colorless life in the suburbs.她渴望逃离郊区单调乏味的生活。
- colorless character
- 平淡无奇的人物
- The novel's main character is a colorless character with no clear motivations.这部小说的主角是一个平淡无奇、动机不明的人物。
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
联想：colorless = color（颜色）+ less（无）。没有颜色的画面如黑白电影，单调乏味，引申为平淡无趣。
语境与语域Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：文学评论、人物描写、书面描述 该义项指“缺乏变化或趣味、平淡无奇”，通常带有轻微的负面评价，比较常见于文学作品、评论和书面描述中。
发音与拼写Pronunciation & Spelling
careless, helpless, endless, restless, and homeless share the spelling -less and the unstressed pronunciation /ləs/, but none rhymes with colorless, whose stressed rhyme is /ʌlɚləs/. Beware the lookalike colossal /kəˈlɑːsəl/, which begins with colo- but has a different vowel, stress, and ending.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT.