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Roget's Thesaurus

Achromatism (Absence of color)

Nouns
  • achromatism
  • decoloration, discoloration
  • pallor, pallidness, pallidity
  • paleness etc. adj.
  • etiolation
  • neutral tint, monochrome, black and white.
Verbs
  • lose color etc. Color
  • fade, fly, go
  • become colorless etc. adj.
  • turn pale, pale. deprive of color, decolorize, bleach, tarnish, achromatize, blanch, etiolate, wash out, tone down.
Adjectives
  • uncolored etc. (color) etc. Color
  • colorless, achromatic, aplanatic
  • etiolate, etiolated
  • hueless, pale, pallid
  • palefaced, tallow-faced
  • faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster
  • discolored etc. v.. light-colored, fair, blond
  • white etc. Whiteness. pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse.