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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Having only one color, represented by differing hues and tints. For example shades in a black and white television.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Perceptive of only one color; unable to distinguish colors; total color blindness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Plain, dull, lifeless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, not-comparable
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adjective
(of light or other electromagnetic radiation) having only one wavelength
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: homochromatic
Antonyms: polychromatic
adjective
of or relating to monochromatism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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adjective satellite
having or appearing to have only one color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: monochrome, monochromic, monochromous
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History
From mono- + chromatic, mono- from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”), chromatic from Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”).
