IRIDESCENCE Antonyms

• lacking in variety and interest

• weak in color; not colorful

• the quality of being slow to understand

• the quality of lacking interestingness

• a lack of visual brightness

• lack of sensibility

• without sharpness or clearness of edge or point

• deprived of life; no longer living

• destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings

• lacking animation or excitement or activity

• not having the capacity to support life

• of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value

• an unchanging intonation

• a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)

• sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

• not elaborate or elaborated; simple

• lacking patterns especially in color

• extensive tract of level open land

• a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side

• unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')

• clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

• not mixed with extraneous elements

• free from any effort to soften to disguise

• lacking embellishment or ornamentation

• lacking in physical beauty or proportion

• express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness

• not stimulating

• not exciting

• having no intellectual or emotional or spiritual excitement

• deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention

• arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement

• characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative

• found in the ordinary course of events