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📄 No marks given 🌈 No gradual change 🛣️ Completely flat
gradeless

gradeless

6.8
A surface that shows no gradual change in color or light and looks flat
  • adjective
: monocromático
  • She preferred a gradeless approach to shading, avoiding any visible transitions.

Examples

  • The designer used a gradeless color scheme to create a minimalist effect.

  • The painting's colors are gradeless and flat.

  • The painting had a gradeless background, making the colors appear flat and even.

  • Why does the sky appear gradeless at sunset?

  • The designer used a gradeless color scheme to create a minimalist effect.

  • She preferred a gradeless approach to shading, avoiding any visible transitions.

  • The painting had a gradeless background, making the colors appear flat and even.

Synonyms

toneless
vsgradeless
1 6.3

A flat voice that shows no emotion

refers to voice without emotion or pitch changes rather than general degree differences
monotonal
vsgradeless
1 7.3

A voice or sound that stays in the same pitch without change

is about lacking gradual differences in degree or intensity rather than only pitch
stepless
vsgradeless
1 4.8

Changes smoothly without sudden jumps between levels

means lacking gradual differences in degree or tone rather than absence of stages
inflectionless
vsgradeless
1 7.9

Said in a flat, boring voice with no rise or fall

focuses on speech delivery lacking variation rather than general gradual differences
rippleless
vsgradeless
  • Specialized
7.7

A steady electric signal without small repeating changes

is about lacking gradual differences in degree or tone rather than technical signal steadiness

Antonyms

graded
6 3.2

People put things into levels by how good they are

How Gradual

gradual
71 3.0
gradeless
6.8
abrupt
46 4.6

Surface Forms

gradeless positive

Morphology

gradeless = grade (transparent) = grade + less

Clear combination of 'grade' + the negative suffix '-less'; the meaning 'without gradation' is directly derived from the 'degree/step' sense of 'grade'.

Etymology

Gradeless comes from grade, from Latin gradus, 'step', and the ending -less, meaning 'without'. Imagine colours or tones as many small steps, so a gradeless background has no steps or slow changes and looks flat and even.