Color synonyms and antonyms
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(Painting) The effect produced by the combination of light, shade, and color
Dark shadows gathering at dusk:
chromaticity
The aspect of color that includes consideration of its dominant wavelength and purity.
A color applied under or seen through another color.
colorfulness
The state of being colorful
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The quality or condition of being bright
Soft and pale
Using the Technicolor process.
The quality or condition of being luminous
A light color; tint; tinge
To apply medicine to; swab:
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Having or exhibiting many colors.
represent (antonym)
Represent is defined as to express in words, symbolize or stand for.
discolor (antonym)
To change in color as by fading, streaking, or staining
The definition of a standard is something established as a rule, example or basis of comparison.
A color or tint.
A warm feeling, as of pleasure or well-being.
colorimetric quality
The quality of reflected light
Coloration in plants or animals due to the presence of pigment in the tissue
Wear or erosion caused by a flow or falling of water, or by the action of waves
Vitality is having the capacity to live and grow, or physical or mental energy or strength.
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To give a tint to or take on a tint.
To decorate with a black enamel or lacquer.
pallor (antonym)
Unnatural paleness, as of the face, associated with poor health, fear, etc.
dimness (antonym)
The state of being dim, poorly illuminated, almost dark.
grow ashen (antonym)
To take on color
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Covered with patches or spots of two colors, esp. with white and black
Done or decorated in several colors
Palette is defined as a thin wooden or plastic board where artists hold small amounts of each color of paint they're using.
A pigment, dye, etc. used to give color to something
The red or orange-red flag of the Abbey of Saint Denis in France, used as a standard by the early kings of France.
To state wrongly or falsely.
External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
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The quality of being colored.
A discolored spot or mark
To add a gloss to (a text).
To paint, draw, engrave, or apply in small points or dots rather than in lines or solid areas
polychromasia
A disorder in which there is an abnormally high number of red blood cells in the bloodstream as a result of their having been prematurely released from the bone marrow during blood formation.
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Anything applied to impart color; pigment, dye, stain, etc.
The natural color, texture, and appearance of the skin, especially of the face.
Something formed by this means or in a mold or matrix:
The state or quality of being brilliant, as:
(Physics) The amount of force or energy of heat, light, sound, electric current, etc. per unit area, volume, charge, etc.
Stimulating or exciting quality
An interest group.
Local color is defined as the characteristics and traits that make a location unique.
A false reason or motive put forth to hide the real one; excuse
To color (a material), especially by soaking in a coloring solution.
To imbue or impregnate.
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To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
To treat (soil, for example) with chalk.
To overlay with a thin layer of gold
To paint in fresco
To adorn with a brightly colored surface.
To suffuse is to fill or spread over with a glow or color.
become rosy
To take on color
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gold (related)
The bright yellow color of gold
tan (related)
The definition of a tan is a yellowish-brownish color, or a darker shade of skin because of sun exposure or a solution used to turn hide into leather.
To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt.
A deceptive outward appearance
deaden (antonym)
To treat (a wall, floor, or ceiling) so as to keep sounds from going through; make soundproof
pale (antonym)
To cause to turn pale.
allochromatic
(Chemistry, physics, by extension) Having properties that are due to the presence of impurities, or to radiation damage
apatetic
Relating to or characterized by coloration serving as natural camouflage.
Having a changeable luster.
The definition of chromatic is having colors, or a musical scale that includes half tones and full tones.
The definition of complementary is someone or something that completes or makes someone or something better.
Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.
The definition of gaudy is something that is bright and ornate, but overdone to the point of being tacky.
heterochromatic
Of, having, or consisting of different or contrasting colors; many-colored
heterochromous
(Botany) Having the central florets of a flower head of a different colour from those of the circumference.
incarnadine
Flesh-colored; pink
Producing a display of lustrous, rainbowlike colors:
Having elements of great variety or incongruity; heterogeneous:
Spotted or blotched with different shades or colors.
Showing a play of colors like that of the opal; iridescent
Patchy in color; splotched or piebald.
Marked with patches of white and another, usually dark, color; piebald or skewbald
The first in a group or series.
Formed by refraction of light through a prism, used especially of a spectrum of light.
Tired, weary
Like or made of taffeta
A tube of mirrors containing loose coloured beads etc. that is rotated to produce a succession of symmetrical designs.
The definition of a rainbow is an arch in the sky made up of different colors that forms when the sun's rays are refracted by rain drops, or any display of different colors formed by the spectrum of light, or any display of vibrant or colorful things.
Spectrum is the range of colors of wavelength energy sent out from a light source when viewed through a prism.
achromatize
To rid of color; render achromatic.
(US, photography, cinematography) To convert black and white media to color by digital post production (as is often done in digital photography and in video special effects).
To take the color out of, as by bleaching
To distort is defined as to change something or shape something in a way that changes it from the truth or from what it should be.
To declare or prove to be false.
To glow
To confuse or mix up (a quotation, story, message, etc.) unintentionally, as through inaccurate copying or poor radio transmission
To fill with color; dye; tinge
To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies. [from 17th c.]
be truthful (antonym)
distort, exaggerate
Something resembling the flower of a plant:
Used in plural: banderole
Fabric used especially as a symbol.
A flag
A national flag displayed on ships and aircraft, often with the special insignia of a branch or unit of the armed forces.
A long, narrow, triangular or swallow-tailed flag borne on a lance as an ensign, as formerly by knights and lancers
(Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
(Music) A cover version.
The definition of disguise is something that hides the truth.
Disguise (deceptive appearance)
façade
A deceptive outward appearance
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A sculptured or molded likeness of the face
The definition of a masquerade is a fancy costume party where the guests wear masks, or to live or act in a false way.
A claim or assertion to a right, especially a false one:
Semblance is having an outward appearance that resembles something desired, even if the reality doesn't match the appearance.
A display; a manifestation:
A piece of light fabric, as of net or gauze, worn, esp. by women, over the face or head or draped from a hat to conceal, protect, or enhance the face
Any attractive but superficial appearance or display
(Idiomatic, uncountable) A means of creating a deceptively favourable impression of something or someone; something for appearance only.
Something, as a novel or play, intended as an elaborate hoax or practical joke on the reader or audience
The state or quality of being believable.
The definition of credibility is the quality of being trustworthy or believable.
The state or quality of being credible.
The quality of being creditable.
The state or quality of being creditable.
The quality of being plausible; speciousness.
The state or quality of being plausible.
The appearance of being true or real
To plunge briefly into a liquid, as in order to wet, coat, or saturate.
To make or become deeply or vividly red.
To cover with something that acts like a mantle; cover, envelop, or conceal:
To show to be false; contradict:
To turn from the true, natural, or right course
To distort, strain, or give a false interpretation of (a meaning, statement, etc.)
Wrest is to take something by force or with considerable difficulty.
To cover or coat with sugar
To varnish is to brush on a clear protective coating.
(Pejorative) To make over (an Asian, African, or person of another race, especially a woman) to look Caucasian.
give a false coloring to
paper-over
put a good face on
colors (related)
(Plural only) Gang insignia.
better (related)
Advantage
substitute (related)
(Sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually do so.
likely (related)
Something or somebody considered likely.
enter (related)
Enter is defined as to come in, put in or get in.
express (related)
To set forth in words; state:
true (related)
In a true manner; truly, truthfully, accurately, etc.
person-of-color (related)
(US, politically correct) A non-white person.
color-charge (related)
(Physics) In the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, anti-quarks, and gluons that determine rules for how these particles may interact. There are three pairs of colors and anti-colors -- named red, green, and blue, and their corresponding anti-colors (e.g., anti-red). The terminology has nothing to do with visible color.
color index (related)
The difference in brightness, expressed in magnitudes, between views of a celestial object through two different colored filters. Colors defined this way are often used to indicate surface temperatures of stars, red being cooler than blue.
hadron (related)
Any of a class of subatomic particles composed of a combination of two or more quarks or antiquarks. Quarks (and antiquarks) of different colors are held together in hadrons by the strong nuclear force. Hadrons include both baryons (composed of three quarks or three antiquarks) and mesons (composed of a quark and an antiquark). The combination of quark colors in a hadron must be neutral, for example, red and antired (as in a pion) or red, blue, and green (as in a proton).
Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
(British) Alternative spelling of coloration.
Plural form of person of color
a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
any material used for its color
any material used for its color
add color to
black-and-white (antonym)
Being in writing or print:
colorlessness (antonym)
The state of being colorless
murrey
Of this color
klangfarbe
tanagra
An ancient city of east-central Greece in eastern Boeotia. The Spartans defeated Athenian forces here (457 bc ).
A moderate yellow green; absinthe green. [First attested in the late 19th century.]
annatto
(Uncountable) An orange-red dye obtained from this seed.
aureolin
The Afroasiatic language of the Copts, derived from ancient Egyptian and attested from the 3d cent. a.d.: now used only in the ritual of the Coptic Church
cramoisie
emeraude
A dye made from the plant.
massicot
A soft, powdery mineral, PbO, used in making rubber, glass, etc.; lead oxide
mignonette
A pale, yellowish green
Any of a genus (Myrtus) of plants of the myrtle family, with evergreen leaves, white or pinkish flowers, and dark, fragrant berries
overpaint
ponceau
(Chemistry) Any of a number of red pigments, some of which are used as indicators
purree
Indian yellow; euxanthin
Any of several plants of the genus Antirrhinum of the figwort family, especially A. majus, widely cultivated for its showy racemes of two-lipped, variously colored flowers.
terre-verte
Any of several green earths or clays containing iron silicates, used as a green pigment by artists
verdet
vermilionette
viridian
A durable bluish-green pigment.
xanthin
Alternative spelling of xanthine.
grayscale (related)
in-color (related)
gray scale (related)
rgbt (related)
texture (related)
magenta (related)
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colours (related)
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matte (related)
font (related)
The condition or state of being iridescent; exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; a prismatic play of color.
The way things seem to be
give color to
To impart color to
Glaze is defined as to put glass in a window, or to put on a glossy finish.
Chrome means to plate with a very hard metal.
To make active, vivacious, interesting, or cheerful; liven up or brighten
To decorate or improve by adding detail; ornament; adorn
The definition of adorn means to decorate or add beauty to a person or thing.
(Intransitive) to be exposed to light
To make red.
turn red
To take on color
(Now Rare) To burn or heat with flame
To present so as to conform to a particular bias or appeal to a certain audience:
black (related)
An American descended from peoples of African origin having brown to black skin; an African American.
blue (related)
brown (related)
Brown is defined as a color made from mixing red, black and yellow, or something of that color.
gray (related)
(Chiefly US, ufology) an extraterrestrial creature with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
green (related)
Green growth or foliage, especially:
orange (related)
Orange is a color made by mixing red and yellow.
pink (related)
Any of a genus (Dianthus) of annual and perennial plants of the pink family with white, pink, or red flowers, often clove-scented
purple (related)
(By extension) Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings.
red (related)
A nickname given to someone who has or had red hair.
decorate (related)
Decorate is defined as to change or add something to make it more beautiful, or to give a medal to someone.
corrupt (related)
Corrupt means to destroy someone's honesty or hurt someone's morals.
influence (related)
To exert or have influence on; have an effect on the nature, behavior, development, action, or thought of
Of several or many colors
Any of various pigments that are responsible for the dark color of the skin, hair, scales, feathers, and eyes of animals and are also found in plants, fungi, and bacteria. Melanins are polymers, often bound to proteins, and in the animal kingdom are built from compounds produced by the oxidation of the amino acid tyrosine.
To cause to appear pale and sickly:
Any substance constituting or yielding a dye
(Sports) A flag that symbolizes the championship of a league, especially a professional baseball league.
To receive a load:
To be an improper or bad representative of
To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
rubine
rubor
To apply paint to (a surface) with hasty or crude strokes.
To draw with a crayon.
yellow (related)
Yellow is a lemony color between orange and green on the spectrum.
To mix (powdered pigments or colors) with water and size.
Synonym Study
- Tinge suggests the presence of a small amount of color, usually diffused throughout white with a tinge of blue
- Tint refers to a gradation of a color with reference to its degree of whiteness and suggests a paleness or delicacy of color pastel tints
- In technical use, hue refers to the distinctive property of a color that enables it to be assigned a position in the spectrum
- color : inherit; text-decoration-color: #3A65B5" > Hue , often equivalent to color, may more specifically indicate a modification of a basic color a reddish hue
- Shade refers to any of the gradations of a color with reference to its degree of darkness a light shade of green
- Color is the general term for the property of reflecting light of a particular wavelength, allowing the eye to distinguish red, orange, yellow, blue, etc.
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