III. WORDS RELATING TO MATTER

III. ORGANIC MATTER

2. Sensation; special sensation; light; specific light

[Absence of color] Achromatism.

[Antonyms: color.]

[Nouns] achromatism; decoloration, discoloration; pallor, pallidity; paleness; etiolation; neutral tint, monochrome, black and white.

[Verbs] lose color [more]; fade, fly, go; become colorless; turn pale, pale.

deprive of color, decolorize, bleach, tarnish, achromatize, blanch, etiolate, wash out, tone down.

[Adjectives] uncolored (see color [more]); 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

light-colored, fair, blond; white [more].

pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse.