color

• (a) having or capable of producing colors
  • color film
  • he rented a color television
  • marvelous color illustrations
  colour,

Nouns

• (n) 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
  coloring, colouring, colour,
• (n) interest and variety and intensity
  • the Puritan Period was lacking in color
  • the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness
  vividness, colour,
• (n) the timbre of a musical sound
  • the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music
  coloration, colouration, colour,
• (n) a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) people of color, people of colour, colour,
• (n) 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
  semblance, gloss, colour,
• (n) any material used for its color
  • she used a different color for the trim
  coloring material, colour, colouring material,
• (n) (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
  • each flavor of quarks comes in three colors
  colour,
• (n) the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation colour,

Verbs

• (v) add color to
  • The child colored the drawings
  • Fall colored the trees
  • colorize black and white film
  color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour,
• (v) affect as in thought or feeling
  • My personal feelings color my judgment in this case
  • The sadness tinged his life
  tinge, colour, distort,
• (v) modify or bias
  • His political ideas color his lectures
  colour,
• (v) decorate with colors
  • color the walls with paint in warm tones
  emblazon, colour,
• (v) give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
  • color a lie
  colour, gloss,
• (v) change color, often in an undesired manner
  • The shirts discolored
  discolour, discolor, colour,

Synonyms

Antonyms

Words of close approximity