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Colourless vs Dreary - What's the difference?

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Colourless is a synonym of dreary.


As adjectives the difference between colourless and dreary

is that colourless is having little or no colour while dreary is (obsolete) grievous, dire; appalling.

colourless

English

(wikipedia colourless)

Alternative forms

* colorless (American spelling)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having little or no colour.
  • (of a liquid) Water white.
  • Lacking in interest or variety.

    • See also

    * (Colorless green ideas sleep furiously) British English forms

    dreary

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.
  • Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
    • It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.
    Once upon a midnight dreary , while I pondered, weak and weary...
  • * 1818 , , Volume 1, Chapter V:
    • It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.

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