Definition of Color

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"


2. Verb. Add color to. "They color their hair "; "Colorize black and white film"

3. Adjective. Having or capable of producing colors. "Marvelous color illustrations"
Exact synonyms: Colour
Category relationships: Photography, Picture Taking
Antonyms: Black-and-white

4. Noun. Interest and variety and intensity. "The characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
Exact synonyms: Colour, Vividness
Generic synonyms: Interest, Interestingness
Attributes: Colorful, Colourful, Colorless, Colourless
Derivative terms: Vivid, Vivid

5. Verb. Affect as in thought or feeling. "The sadness tinged his life"
Exact synonyms: Colour, Distort, Tinge
Generic synonyms: Affect, Bear On, Bear Upon, Impact, Touch, Touch On

6. Noun. The timbre of a musical sound. "The recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
Exact synonyms: Coloration, Colour, Colouration
Generic synonyms: Quality, Timber, Timbre, Tone

7. Verb. Modify or bias. "His political ideas color his lectures"
Exact synonyms: Colour
Generic synonyms: Act Upon, Influence, Work
Derivative terms: Colour

8. Noun. A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks).
Exact synonyms: Colour, People Of Color, People Of Colour
Generic synonyms: Race
Member holonyms: Person Of Color, Person Of Colour

9. Verb. Decorate with colors. "Color the walls with paint in warm tones"
Exact synonyms: Colour, Emblazon
Generic synonyms: Adorn, Beautify, Decorate, Embellish, Grace, Ornament
Specialized synonyms: Miniate
Derivative terms: Coloration, Colorist, Colour

10. Noun. An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading. "The situation soon took on a different color"

11. Verb. Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for. "Color a lie"
Exact synonyms: Colour, Gloss
Generic synonyms: Apologise, Apologize, Excuse, Justify, Rationalise, Rationalize
Derivative terms: Gloss

12. Noun. Any material used for its color. "She used a different color for the trim"
Exact synonyms: Coloring Material, Colour, Colouring Material
Specialized synonyms: Paint, Pigment, Indicator, Mordant, Dye, Dyestuff, Tincture, Hematochrome, Pigment, Pigment, Stain
Generic synonyms: Material, Stuff
Derivative terms: Colorist, Colour, Colour, Colour

13. Verb. Change color, often in an undesired manner. "The shirts discolored"

14. Noun. (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction. "Each flavor of quarks comes in three colors"
Exact synonyms: Colour
Generic synonyms: Form, Kind, Sort, Variety
Category relationships: High Energy Physics, High-energy Physics, Particle Physics

15. 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.
Exact synonyms: Colour
Generic synonyms: Appearance, Visual Aspect
Derivative terms: Colorist

Definition of Color

1. n. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.

2. v. t. To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain.

3. v. i. To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.

Definition of Color

1. to give color (a visual attribute of objects) to [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Color

colopathy
colopexostomy
colopexotomy
colopexy
colophon
colophonies
colophons
colophony
colophony
coloplication
coloproctia
coloproctitis
coloproctostomy
coloptosis
colopuncture
color (current term)
color-blind
color-blind person
colorable
colorably
Coloradan
coloradillo
Colorado
Colorado beetle
Colorado blue spruce
Colorado Desert
Colorado fir
Colorado four o'clock
Colorado Plateau
Colorado potato beetle

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