color

Roget category 428

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.2. Sensation

#428. Color

noun

color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush — tone, key.
pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive complementary color — three primaries — spectrum, chromatic dispersion — broken color, secondary color, tertiary color.
local color, coloring, keeping, tone, value, aerial perspective.
[Science of color] chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy — chromatism^†, chromatography^†, chromatology^†.
[instruments to measure color] prism, spectroscope, spectrograph, spectrometer, colorimeter (optical instruments) 445.
pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain — medium — mordant — oil paint etc. (painting) 556.

verb

color, dye, tinge, stain, tint, tinct^†, paint, wash, ingrain, grain, illuminate, emblazon, bedizen, imbue — paint etc. (fine art) 556.

adjective

colored etc. v. — colorific^†, tingent^†, tinctorial^† — chromatic, prismatic — full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored — doubly-dyed — polychromatic — chromatogenous^† — tingible^†.
bright, vivid, intense, deep — fresh, unfaded^† — rich, gorgeous — gay.
gaudy, florid — gay, garish — rainbow-colored, multihued — showy, flaunting, flashy — raw, crude — glaring, flaring — discordant, inharmonious.
mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.

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