dyeing [dahy-ing]
Main Entry:
dye [dahy]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: change color with mixture
Synonyms: impregnate, pigment, stain, tincture, tinge, tint
Antonyms: bleach, fade, whiten
Main Entry: paint
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: apply colored tint, often to make design
Synonyms: brush, catch a likeness, coat, color, compose, cover, cover up, daub, decorate, delineate, depict, design, draft, draw, dye, figure, fresco, gloss over, limn, ornament, outline, picture, portray, put on coats, represent, shade, sketch, slap on, slather, stipple, swab, tint, touch up, wash
Antonyms: strip
Main Entry: redden
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: blush, make rosy
Synonyms: bloody, color, crimson, dye, flush, glow, go red, incarnadine, mantle, paint, pink, pinken, rose, rouge, rubify, rubric, rubricate, ruby, ruddle, ruddy, rust, suffuse, tint, turn red
Antonyms: lighten, pale
Main Entry: stain
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: dirty, taint
Synonyms: animalize, bastardize, besmirch, bestialize, blacken, blemish, blot, brutalize, color, contaminate, corrupt, daub, debase, debauch, defile, demoralize, deprave, discolor, disgrace, drag through the mud, dye, mark, pervert, smear, smudge, soil, spot, sully, tar, tarnish, tinge, tint
Antonyms: clean
Main Entry: tinge
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: color
Synonyms: complexion, dye, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, saturate, shade, stain, streak, suffuse, tincture, tint
Antonyms: pale, whiten
Main Entry: tint
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: color with a certain shade
Synonyms: affect, complexion, dye, influence, rinse, shade, stain, taint, tincture, tinge, touch, wash
Antonyms: pale, whiten
Main Entry: coloring
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: coloration
Synonyms: complexion, dyeing, imbuement, intinction, quality, shading, staining, tinction, tinting, variegation
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
Browse Concept Index »
Search another word or see dyeingon Dictionary |Spanish
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature