Achromatous

According to Dictionary.com, the word achromatous means ” having little or inadequate color; lighter in collor than normal. I stumbled accross this word in Tahira Naqvi’s “Brave We are” when she was describing the seasons in the small town in Conneticut in which she lived in. Naqvi used a vast variety of words to create imagery for us to understand that sometimes the area was not so appealing. For example, “… when the tones on its canvas are achromatous and dark, to melancholy, to sadness. At first, I thought this word meant gloomy or mysteriouys looking. I then looked it up and realized it was neither, but it was a way to describe the canvas’s lack of color.