| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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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
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| 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.
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| Antonyms: | achromatism |
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