pigmentless
Lacking any color
Pigmentless means lacking pigment—the substances that give color to skin, hair, eyes, plants, or other materials.
The term appears in scientific and technical contexts: pigmentless mutants of the fungus, pigmentless albino mice.
In everyday speech, words like colorless or albino are more common.
Absence of pigment
- paleLacking color intensity
- colorlessDevoid of pigmentation
- achromaticLacking visible hue
- translucentPermitting diffused light passage
ghostly · milky · ivory · snowy · pallid · blanched · wan · ashen
Inherited melanin deficiency
- albinoOne without melanin
- vitiligoMelanocyte-loss skin condition
- geneticRelating to heredity
- hereditaryPassed through generations
congenital · mutation · recessive · ocular · melanocyte · depigmented
Had color removed
- fadedLost original color
- decolorizedHad pigment extracted
- whitenedMade lighter in color
- lightenedMade less heavy
stripped · leached · sun-bleached · oxidized · peroxide · blanching · discolored · weathered
white
Absence of pigment
- paleLacking color intensity
- colorlessDevoid of pigmentation
- achromaticLacking visible hue
translucent · ghostly · milky · ivory · snowy · pallid · blanched · wan · ashen · washed-out
albinism
Inherited melanin deficiency
hereditary · congenital · mutation · recessive · ocular · melanocyte · depigmented
bleached
Had color removed
- fadedLost original color
- decolorizedHad pigment extracted
- whitenedMade lighter in color
lightened · stripped · leached · sun-bleached · oxidized · peroxide · blanching · discolored · weathered
pigment, pigments, pigmented, pigmentation, depigmentation, unpigmented, less