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colour

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

Nouns

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

Verbs

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

Synonyms

color coloring material colouring material emblazon people of color people of colour gloss tinge distort vividness coloration colouration color in colorise colorize colour in colourise colourize coloring colouring discolour discolor semblance

Antonyms

black and white discolor achromaticity achromatism colorlessness colourlessness

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