Colored [kuhl-erd]
Main Entry:
color [kuhl-er]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make pigmented; shade
Synonyms: adorn, blacken, bloom, blush, burn, chalk, crayon, crimson, darken, daub, dye, embellish, emblazon, enamel, enliven, flush, fresco, gild, glaze, gloss, illuminate, imbue, infuse, lacquer, paint, pigment, pinken, redden, rouge, stain, stipple, suffuse, tinge, tint, tone, variegate, wash
Notes: color refers to the wavelength composition of light, shade is a gradation of color referring to its degree of darkness, tint is a gradation referring to its degree of lightness, and hue indicates a modification of a basic color
Antonyms: discolor, pale, whiten
Main Entry: colored
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not white
Synonyms: dyed, flushed, glowing, hued, shaded, stained, tinged, tinted, washed
Antonyms: white
Main Entry: colored
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: distorted
Synonyms: angled, biased, false, falsified, jaundiced, misrepresented, one-sided, partial, partisan, perverted, prejudiced, prepossessed, tampered with, tendentious, warped
Antonyms: genuine, honest, real, truthful
Related Words
Main Entry: color
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
crude, Day, allochroous, bright, chromatic, colored, colorific, deep, double, flashy, flaunting, florid, fresh, gairish, garish, gaudy, gay, glaring, gorgeous, harmonious, high, intense, iridal, iridian, isochroous, mellow, multicolored, pavonine, pearly, polychromatic, prismatic, prismatoidal, raw, rich, showy, sweet, tinctorial, tingent, unfaded, vivid
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Color.
Category: 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; specific light
Synonyms:
-nouns
color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush; tone, key., pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive color, 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; prism, spectroscope., pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain; medium; mordant; oil paint, painting [more].
-verbs
color, dye, tinge, stain, tint, tinct, paint, wash, ingrain, grain, illuminate, emblazon, bedizen, imbue; paint (fine art).
-adjectives
colored; 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.
Antonyms: achromatism
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Main Entry: belie
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deceive
Synonyms: color, conceal, disguise, distort, falsify, garble, give the lie to, gloss over, hide, miscolor, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, trump up, twist, warp
Antonyms: be honest
Main Entry: blush
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: become colored, pinken
Synonyms: color, crimson, flush, glow, have rosy cheeks, mantle, redden, rouge, turn red, turn scarlet
Antonyms: blanch, pale
Main Entry: bright
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: vivid in color
Synonyms: brave, brilliant, clear, colored, colorful, deep, flashy, fresh, gay, glitzy, hued, intense, psychedelic, razzle-dazzle, rich, ruddy, sharp, showy, tinged, tinted
Antonyms: light, pale, pastel
Main Entry: decorate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: beautify, embellish
Synonyms: add finishing touches, adorn, bedeck, bedizen, brighten, burnish, color, deck, do up, dress out, dress up, enhance, enrich, festoon, finish, fix up, frill, furbish, garnish, gild, grace, gussy up, idealize, illuminate, jazz up, ornament, paint, perfect, prank, renovate, spruce up, trim
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