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Technicolor

adj · noun · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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.

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  • UK: /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkʌl.ə(ɹ)/
  • homophone: technicolor
  • homophone: Technicolor
  • CMU ARPABET: T EH1 K N IH0 K AH2 L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

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adj

Meaning 1

Using the Technicolor process.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • It was his opinion that 1946's Do You Love Me, a Technicolor musical, would go down much better with 'industrial audiences' than the 'better class' of viewer.

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2

adj

Meaning 2

Extremely or excessively colourful.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, not-comparable

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3

adj

Meaning 3

Describing something in a technicolor model, a model that is similar to the Standard Model but lacks a scalar Higgs field.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

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4

noun

Meaning 4

A colour process for motion pictures, developed and used in the twentieth century and known for its hyperrealistic, saturated levels of colour.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • filmed in Technicolor [collocation in movie credits]

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noun

Meaning 5

A process of colour cinematography using synchronised monochrome films, each of a different colour, to produce a colour print.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

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noun

Meaning 6

Vivid colour.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

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noun

Meaning 7

A collection of theories based on quantum chromodynamics

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

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8

noun

Meaning 8

a trademarked method of making color motion pictures

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: method

History

Etymology

Blend of technology + color. A trademark (1916), in reference to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where two of its three developers met.

From Technicolor.