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Definition of Chromatic color
1. Noun. A color that has hue.
Generic synonyms: Color, Coloring, Colour, Colouring
Specialized synonyms: Red, Redness, Orange, Orangeness, Salmon, Yellow, Yellowness, Blond, Blonde, Green, Greenness, Viridity, Blue, Blueness, Purple, Purpleness, Pink, Brown, Brownness, Olive, Pastel, Complementary, Complementary Color
Terms within: Chroma, Intensity, Saturation, Vividness
Antonyms: Achromatic Color
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chromatic Color
Literary usage of Chromatic color
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"... which are supposed to be furnished with a tri-chromatic color- apparatus, and
to afford the sensations of color and a compound sensation of white. ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"... which are supposed to be furnished with a tri-chromatic color- apparatus, and
to afford the sensations of color and a compound sensation of white. ..."
3. The Theosophist by Theosophical Society (Madras, India) (1898)
"We consequently projected the chromatic color scale, spherically, on the principle
of M. Chevreul, the French authority, when, to onr unspeakable joy, ..."
4. Ophthalmic Lenses and Prisms: An Essay Contributed to "The American by Charles Frederick Prentice (1917)
"... of unequal refractive powers and dispersions, must have their curvatures so
accurately proportioned to each other that the chromatic (color) aberration ..."
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