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COLOR

Definition:

1. [noun] a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
   Synonyms: colour, ing, colouring
   
   
2. [noun] interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"
   Synonyms: colour, vividness
   
   
3. [noun] the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
   Synonyms: colour, ation, colouration
   
   
4. [noun] a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
   Synonyms: colour, people of people of colour
   
   
5. [noun] an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color"
   Synonyms: semblance, gloss, colour
   
   
6. [noun] any material used for its color; "she used a different color for the trim"
   Synonyms: ing material, colouring material, colour
   
   
7. [noun] (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors
   Synonyms: colour
   
   
8. [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
   Synonyms: colour
   
   
9. [verb] add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
   Synonyms: ize, ise, colourise, colourize, colour, in, colour in
   
   
10. [verb] affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
    Synonyms: tinge, colour, distort
    
    
11. [verb] modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"
    Synonyms: colour
    
    
12. [verb] decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
    Synonyms: colour, emblazon
    
    
13. [verb] gloss or excuse; "color a lie"
    Synonyms: colour, gloss
    
    
14. [verb] change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"
    Synonyms: disdiscolour, colour
    
    
15. [adjective] having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
    Synonyms: colour
    
    

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Related Words:

• blackwash
• motley, parti-color
• polychrome, polychromize, polychromise
• azure
• purple, empurple, purpurate
• aurify
• verdigris
• pinkify
• incarnadine
• embrown
• handcolour
• pigment
• retouch
• silver
• gray, grey
• tone
• redden
• mottle, streak, blotch
• miniate
• blush, crimson, flush, redden
• pale, blanch, blench
• tan, bronze
• sunburn, burn
• whiten, white
• blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black
• turn
• silver
• dye
• redden
• purple
• gray, grey
• yellow
• tone
• green
• blue
• heather mixture, heather
• 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
• color of law, colour of law
• simulacrum
• face value
• guise, pretense, pretence, pretext
• disguise, camouflage
• verisimilitude
• paint
• indicator
• mordant
• dye, dyestuff
• tincture
• hematochrome
• pigment
• stain

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