tintless
adjEtymology From tint + -less.
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Having no tint; colourless.
- One of the most curious things on the shallow parts of Huron is to sail or row over the submarine or sublacune mountains, and to feel giddy from fancy, for it is like being in a balloon, so pure and tintless is the water.1849, Richard Henry Bonnycastle, chapter IX, in Canada and the Canadians, Henry Colburn:
- How, with the tintless pallor of her skin and the classic straightness of her lineaments, she managed to look sensual, I don't know.1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter X, in The Professor:
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- It can be tinted to the taste of the purchaser; but, as a rule, a tintless crystal is preferred.1880, Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record, Truber & Co, page 195:
- Derived terms
- tintlessness