Achromic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Achromic \A*chro"mic\, a. [Gr. ? colorless; ? priv. + ? color.]
     Free from color; colorless; as, in (Physiol. Chem.), the
     achromic point of a starch solution acted upon by an
     amylolytic enzyme is the point at which it fails to give any
     color with iodine.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  achromic
       adj : having no color [syn: {achromous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "achromic":
     achromatic, anemic, ashen, ashy, bled white, bloodless, cadaverous,
     chloranemic, colorless, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, dim,
     dimmed, dingy, discolored, dull, etiolated, exsanguinated,
     exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, ghastly,
     gray, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, lackluster, leaden, livid,
     lurid, lusterless, mat, mealy, muddy, neutral, pale, pale as death,
     pale-faced, pallid, pasty, sallow, sickly, tallow-faced, toneless,
     uncolored, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white