Colourless vs Tedious - What's the difference?
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Having little or no colour.
(of a liquid) Water white.
Lacking in interest or variety.
Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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Colourless is a related term of tedious.
As adjectives the difference between colourless and tedious
is that colourless is having little or no colour while tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.colourless
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(wikipedia colourless)Alternative forms
* colorless (American spelling)Adjective
(en adjective)See also
* (Colorless green ideas sleep furiously) British English formstedious
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=A work is objectively tedious' when it contains the defect in question; that is to say, when its author has no perfectly clear thought or knowledge to communicate. For if a man has any clear thought or knowledge in him, his aim will be to communicate it, and he will direct his energies to this end; so that the ideas he furnishes are everywhere clearly expressed. The result is that he is neither diffuse, nor unmeaning, nor confused, and consequently not ' tedious .}}
citation, passage=The other kind of tediousness is only relative: a reader may find a work dull because he has no interest in the question treated of in it, and this means that his intellect is restricted. The best work may, therefore, be tedious' subjectively, ' tedious .}}