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Roget's Thesaurus

#429. 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. 428; 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. 428; 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. 430. pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse.


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