brown

[broun] / braʊn /

ADJECTIVE

of a dark color with a yellow-red hue

Synonyms

STRONG

amber bay beige bister brick bronze buff chestnut chocolate cinnamon cocoa coffee copper drab dust ecru fawn ginger hazel henna khaki mahogany nut brown ochre puce russet rust sepia sorrel tan toast umber

WEAK

auburn burnt sienna snuff-colored tawny terra-cotta

Example Sentences

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The primary colors are drab grays and ugly browns.

From Los Angeles Times

The brown, greasy, bleach-flavored clouds were taking something with them, something of the paradise spirit.

From Los Angeles Times

The smog season regularly did a number on our mile-high mountains, wrapping them in a brown cloak of invisibility until wind and rain swept the sludge away.

From Los Angeles Times

That perfection of air and climate that lured filmmakers here in the first place was being lost in a brown miasma.

From Los Angeles Times

They also launched a BBC spin-off, which they said was the first podcast hosted by black and brown women to reach number one on the Apple Podcasts chart.

From BBC

brown

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