Synonyms and Antonyms of colour

synonym (synonym of colour)

antonym (antonym of colour)

hypernym (colour IS A KIND OF .... relation)

  • (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction (noun.cognition)
    form, kind, sort, variety
    a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality (noun.cognition)
     
  • a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) (noun.group)
    race
    people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock (noun.group)
     
  • a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect (noun.attribute)
    visual property
    an attribute of vision (noun.attribute)
     
  • add color to (verb.change)
    alter, change, modify
    cause to change; make different; cause a transformation (verb.change)
     
  • affect as in thought or feeling (verb.communication)
    affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on
    have an effect upon (verb.change)
     
  • any material used for its color (noun.substance)
    material, stuff
    the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object (noun.substance)
     
  • change color, often in an undesired manner (verb.change)
    change
    undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature (verb.change)
     
  • decorate with colors (verb.creation)
    adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament
    make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. (verb.creation)
     
  • give a deceptive explanation or excuse for (verb.communication)
    apologise, apologize, excuse, justify, rationalise, rationalize
    defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning (verb.communication)
     
  • interest and variety and intensity (noun.attribute)
    interest, interestingness
    the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.) (noun.attribute)
     
  • modify or bias (verb.social)
    act upon, influence, work
    have and exert influence or effect (verb.social)
     
  • the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation (noun.attribute)
    appearance, visual aspect, appearance, visual aspect
    outward or visible aspect of a person or thing (noun.attribute)
     
  • the timbre of a musical sound (noun.attribute)
    quality, timber, timbre, tone
    (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) (noun.attribute)
     

hyponym (.... IS A KIND OF colour relation)

  • a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect (noun.attribute)
    primary color, primary colour
    any of three colors from which all others can be obtained by mixing (noun.attribute)
     
  • (noun.attribute)
    heather, heather mixture
    interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color (noun.attribute)
     
  • (noun.attribute)
    mottle
    an irregular arrangement of patches of color (noun.attribute)
     
  • (noun.attribute)
    shade, tincture, tint, tone
    a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color (noun.attribute)
     
  • (noun.attribute)
    chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
    a color that has hue (noun.attribute)
     
  • (noun.attribute)
    achromatic color, achromatic colour
    a color lacking hue; white or grey or black (noun.attribute)
     
  • (noun.attribute)
    coloration, colouration
    appearance with regard to color (noun.attribute)
     
  • (noun.attribute)
    complexion, skin color, skin colour
    the coloring of a person's face (noun.attribute)
     
  • (noun.attribute)
    dithered color, dithered colour, nonsolid color, nonsolid colour
    a color produced by a pattern of differently colored dots that together simulate the desired color (noun.attribute)
     
  • add color to (verb.change)
    blackwash
    color with blackwash (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    motley, parti-color
    make motley; color with different colors (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    polychrome, polychromise, polychromize
    color with many colors; make polychrome (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    azure
    color azure (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    empurple, purple, purpurate
    color purple (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    aurify
    turn golden (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    verdigris
    color verdigris (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    pinkify
    make pink (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    incarnadine
    make flesh-colored (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    brown, embrown
    make brown in color (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    handcolor, handcolour
    color by hand (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    tinct, tinge, tint, touch
    color lightly (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    hue, imbue
    suffuse with color (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    retouch
    give retouches to (hair) (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.creation)
    blotch, mottle, streak
    mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained (verb.creation)
     
  • an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading (noun.attribute)
    color of law, colour of law
    a mere semblance of legal right; something done with the apparent authority of law but actually in contravention of law (noun.attribute)
     
  • (noun.attribute)
    simulacrum
    an insubstantial or vague semblance (noun.attribute)
     
  • (noun.attribute)
    face value
    the apparent worth as opposed to the real worth (noun.attribute)
     
  • (noun.attribute)
    guise, pretence, pretense, pretext
    an artful or simulated semblance (noun.attribute)
     
  • (noun.attribute)
    camouflage, disguise
    an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something (noun.attribute)
     
  • (noun.attribute)
    verisimilitude
    the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true (noun.attribute)
     
  • any material used for its color (noun.substance)
    paint, pigment
    a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating (noun.artifact)
     
  • (noun.substance)
    indicator
    (chemistry) a substance that changes color to indicate the presence of some ion or substance; can be used to indicate the completion of a chemical rea more.. (noun.substance)
     
  • (noun.substance)
    mordant
    a substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process (noun.substance)
     
  • (noun.substance)
    dye, dyestuff
    a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair (noun.substance)
     
  • (noun.substance)
    tincture
    a substances that colors metals (noun.substance)
     
  • (noun.substance)
    hematochrome
    a reddish coloring material found in some algae (noun.substance)
     
  • (noun.substance)
    pigment
    dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.) (noun.substance)
     
  • (noun.substance)
    stain
    (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible (noun.substance)
     
  • change color, often in an undesired manner (verb.change)
    blush, crimson, flush, redden
    turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame (verb.body)
     
  • (verb.body)
    blanch, blench, pale
    turn pale, as if in fear (verb.body)
     
  • (verb.body)
    bronze, tan
    get a tan, from wind or sun (verb.body)
     
  • (verb.body)
    burn, sunburn
    get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun (verb.body)
     
  • (verb.change)
    white, whiten
    turn white (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    black, blacken, melanise, melanize, nigrify
    make or become black (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    turn
    change color (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    silver
    turn silver (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    dye
    color with dye (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    redden
    turn red or redder (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    purple
    become purple (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    gray, grey
    turn grey (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    yellow
    turn yellow (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    tone
    change the color or tone of (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    green
    turn or become green (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    blue
    turn blue (verb.change)
     
  • decorate with colors (verb.creation)
    miniate
    paint with red lead or vermilion (verb.creation)
     

member holonym (MEMBER OF relation)

  • a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) (noun.group)
    person of color, person of colour
    (formal) any non-European non-white person (noun.person)
     

attribute (colour is an attribute of ....)

  • a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect (noun.attribute)
    colored, colorful, coloured
    having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    uncolored, uncoloured
    without color (adj.all)
     
  • interest and variety and intensity (noun.attribute)
    colorful, colourful
    having striking color (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    colorless, colourless
    weak in color; not colorful (adj.all)
     

derivation (.... is derived from colour)

domain category (colour is domain category of ....)

  • (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction (noun.cognition)
    high energy physics, high-energy physics, particle physics
    the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions (noun.cognition)
     
  • having or capable of producing colors (adj.all)
    photography, picture taking
    the act of taking and printing photographs (noun.act)
     
synonym antonym hypernym hyponym member holonym attribute derivation color coloring material people of color people of colour vividness coloration achromaticity achromatism colorlessness discolor black and white black-and-white appearance visual aspect visual property quality interest interestingness color of law colour of law simulacrum face value guise pretence person of color person of colour colored colorful coloured uncolored uncoloured colourful colorist color discolor color in colorise emblazon
Save this image.
colour

Link to this page


Related Words

. color, coloring material, colouring material . color, people of color, people of colour . color . color, vividness . color, coloration, colouration . color, coloring, colouring . color, gloss, semblance . color, emblazon . color, gloss . color, distort, tinge . color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize . color, discolor, discolour . achromaticity, achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness . discolor . black and white, black-and-white . form, kind, sort, variety . race . visual property . alter, change, modify . affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on . material, stuff . change . adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament . apologise, apologize, excuse, justify, rationalise, rationalize . interest, interestingness . act upon, influence, work . appearance, visual aspect, appearance, visual aspect . quality, timber, timbre, tone . primary color, primary colour . heather, heather mixture . mottle . shade, tincture, tint, tone . chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour . achromatic color, achromatic colour . coloration, colouration . complexion, skin color, skin colour . dithered color, dithered colour, nonsolid color, nonsolid colour . blackwash . motley, parti-color . polychrome, polychromise, polychromize . azure . empurple, purple, purpurate . aurify . verdigris . pinkify . incarnadine . brown, embrown . handcolor, handcolour . tinct, tinge, tint, touch . hue, imbue . retouch . blotch, mottle, streak . color of law, colour of law . simulacrum . face value . guise, pretence, pretense, pretext . camouflage, disguise . verisimilitude . paint, pigment . indicator . mordant . dye, dyestuff . tincture . hematochrome . pigment . stain . blush, crimson, flush, redden . blanch, blench, pale . bronze, tan . burn, sunburn . white, whiten . black, blacken, melanise, melanize, nigrify . turn . silver . dye . redden . purple . gray, grey . yellow . tone . green . blue . miniate . person of color, person of colour . colored, colorful, coloured . uncolored, uncoloured . colorful, colourful . colorless, colourless . color, colour, discolor, discolour . color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize . color, colour, emblazon . coloration, colouration . coloring, colouring, food color, food coloring, food colour, food colouring . color, colour, gloss . color, colour . discoloration, discolouration . coloring, colouring . discoloration, discolouration, stain . color, coloring, colour, colouring . color, coloring material, colour, colouring material . color, coloring material, colour, colouring material, color, coloring material, colour, colouring material . color, colour, gloss, semblance . vivid . graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid . colorist . high energy physics, high-energy physics, particle physics . photography, picture taking


Browse by Prefix
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z