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adj
Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
having or capable of producing colors
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: color
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: color
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: appearance, visual aspect
noun
an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: semblance, gloss, color
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: appearance, visual aspect
Narrower terms: color of law, colour of law, simulacrum, face value, guise, pretense, pretence, pretext, disguise, camouflage, verisimilitude
noun
a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: color, coloring, colouring
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: visual property
Narrower terms: primary color, primary colour, heather mixture, heather, mottle, shade, tint, tincture, tone, chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour, achromatic color, achromatic colour, coloration, colouration, complexion, skin color, skin colour, nonsolid color, nonsolid colour, dithered color, dithered colour
noun
the timbre of a musical sound
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: color, coloration, colouration
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: timbre, timber, quality, tone
noun
interest and variety and intensity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: color, vividness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: interest, interestingness
noun
(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: color
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: kind, sort, form, variety
noun
a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: color, people of color, people of colour
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: race
noun
any material used for its color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: coloring material, colouring material, color
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: material, stuff
Narrower terms: paint, pigment, indicator, mordant, dye, dyestuff, tincture, hematochrome, stain
verb
change color, often in an undesired manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: discolor, discolour, color
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change
Narrower terms: blush, crimson, flush, redden, pale, blanch, blench, tan, bronze, sunburn, burn, whiten, white, blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black, turn, silver, dye, purple, grey, gray, yellow, tone, green, blue
verb
add color to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, color in, colour in
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
Narrower terms: blackwash, motley, parti-color, polychrome, polychromize, polychromise, azure, purple, empurple, purpurate, aurify, verdigris, pinkify, incarnadine, embrown, brown, handcolor, handcolour, tint, tinct, tinge, touch, pigment, imbue, hue, retouch, silver, grey, gray, tone, redden, mottle, streak, blotch
verb
affect as in thought or feeling
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: tinge, color, distort
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
verb
give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: color, gloss
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
verb
decorate with colors
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: color, emblazon
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
Narrower terms: miniate
verb
modify or bias
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: color
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: influence, act upon, work
History
No etymology was provided for this word.
