What are some opposite words for COLOR?
Antonyms for COLOR
ˈkʌl ərcol·or
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term COLOR.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
color
A pretense, in the unfavorable, which is also the usual sense, is something advanced or displayed for the purpose of concealing the reality. A person makes a pretense of something for the credit or advantage to be gained by it; he makes what is allowed or approved a pretext for doing what would be opposed or condemned; a tricky schoolboy makes a pretense of doing an errand which he does not do, or he makes the actual doing of an errand a pretext for playing truant. A ruse is something (especially something slight or petty) employed to blind or deceive so as to mask an ulterior design, and enable a person to gain some end that he would not be allowed to approach directly. A pretension is a claim that is or may be contested; the word is now commonly used in an unfavorable sense. Compare ARTIFICE; HYPOCRISY.
Antonyms:
actuality, candor, fact, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, ingenuousness, openness, reality, simplicity, sincerity, truthSynonyms:
affectation, air, assumption, cloak, disguise, dissimulation, excuse, mask, pretense, pretension, pretext, ruse, seeming, semblance, show, simulation, subterfuge, trick, wile
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
color
Antonyms:
achromatism, paleness, nakedness, openness, genuineness, transparency, truthfulnessSynonyms:
hue, tint, complexion, pretense, speciousness, tinge, garbling, falsification, distortion, perversion, varnish
Princeton's WordNet
color, colour, coloring, colouringnoun
a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
"a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
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achromaticity, colourlessness, colorlessness, achromatism, black-and-white, black and white(p), discolorSynonyms:
coloring, colouring, colouring material, people of color, vividness, colour, people of colour, colouration, food colouring, semblance, color, coloration, food color, gloss, food coloring, coloring material, food colourcolor, colour, vividnessnoun
interest and variety and intensity
"the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
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achromatism, achromaticity, colorlessness, colourlessness, black-and-white, black and white(p), discolorSynonyms:
color, gloss, people of colour, chroma, semblance, coloring, colouration, coloring material, colour, intensity, saturation, colouring material, colouring, vividness, coloration, people of colorcolor, colour, coloration, colourationnoun
the timbre of a musical sound
"the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
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achromatism, achromaticity, colorlessness, colourlessness, black-and-white, black and white(p), discolorSynonyms:
color, gloss, people of colour, semblance, coloring, colouration, coloring material, colour, colouring material, colouring, vividness, coloration, people of colorcolor, colour, people of color, people of colournoun
a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
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colourlessness, colorlessness, achromaticity, achromatism, black and white(p), black-and-white, discolorSynonyms:
color, gloss, people of colour, semblance, coloring, colouration, coloring material, colour, colouring material, colouring, vividness, coloration, people of colorsemblance, gloss, color, colournoun
an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
"he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color"
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achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness, achromaticity, black and white(p), black-and-white, discolorSynonyms:
coloring, colouring, illusion, coloring material, polish, glossary, people of colour, vividness, colour, colouring material, color, glossiness, semblance, likeness, coloration, colouration, rubric, gloss, burnish, people of colorcoloring material, colouring material, color, colournoun
any material used for its color
"she used a different color for the trim"
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colourlessness, achromaticity, achromatism, colorlessness, black-and-white, black and white(p), discolorSynonyms:
gloss, people of colour, color, coloring, colouration, coloring material, colour, colouring material, semblance, colouring, vividness, coloration, people of colorcolor, colournoun
(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
"each flavor of quarks comes in three colors"
Antonyms:
achromatism, achromaticity, colourlessness, colorlessness, black and white(p), black-and-white, discolorSynonyms:
color, gloss, people of colour, semblance, coloring, colouration, coloring material, colour, colouring material, colouring, vividness, coloration, people of colorcolor, colouradjective
the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
Antonyms:
colourlessness, colorlessness, achromaticity, achromatism, black-and-white, black and white(p), discolorSynonyms:
color, gloss, people of colour, semblance, coloring, colouration, coloring material, colour, colouring material, colouring, vividness, coloration, people of colorcolor, colourverb
having or capable of producing colors
"color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
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achromaticity, colorlessness, achromatism, colourlessness, black-and-white, black and white(p), discolorcolor, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour inverb
add color to
"The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
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colorlessness, colourlessness, achromatism, achromaticity, black and white(p), black-and-white, discolorSynonyms:
color in, colorize, emblazon, color, colour, colorise, discolor, tinge, colourise, colourize, gloss, discolour, colour in, distorttinge, color, colour, distortverb
affect as in thought or feeling
"My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
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achromatism, achromaticity, colourlessness, colorlessness, black and white(p), black-and-white, discolorSynonyms:
warp, discolor, touch, strain, wring, twist, deform, tinct, tint, colourise, colourize, colorize, contort, colour, emblazon, distort, garble, color, twine, colour in, tinge, color in, gloss, colorise, falsify, discolourcolor, colourverb
modify or bias
"His political ideas color his lectures"
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achromaticity, colourlessness, achromatism, colorlessness, black and white(p), black-and-white, discolorSynonyms:
color in, colorize, emblazon, color, colour, colorise, discolor, tinge, colourise, colourize, gloss, discolour, colour in, distortcolor, colour, emblazonverb
decorate with colors
"color the walls with paint in warm tones"
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colourlessness, achromaticity, colorlessness, achromatism, black and white(p), black-and-white, discolorSynonyms:
color in, colorize, emblazon, color, blazon, colour, colorise, discolor, tinge, colourise, colourize, gloss, discolour, colour in, distortcolor, colour, glossverb
give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
"color a lie"
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colorlessness, colourlessness, achromaticity, achromatism, black-and-white, black and white(p), discolorSynonyms:
color in, comment, colorize, emblazon, annotate, color, colour, colorise, discolor, tinge, colourise, colourize, gloss, discolour, colour in, distortdiscolor, discolour, colour, colorverb
change color, often in an undesired manner
"The shirts discolored"
Antonyms:
colorlessness, achromaticity, colourlessness, achromatism, black and white(p), black-and-white, discolorSynonyms:
gloss, colorize, discolor, color in, colorise, colour, tinge, emblazon, color, colourize, colourise, discolour, colour in, distort
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
colornoun
Synonyms:
hue, shade, tinge, tincture, tint, pigment, paint, dye, stainAssociated words:
chromatics, colorific, colorist, chromatism, chromatology, lake, decolorant, mordant, intinctivity, iridescent, iridescence, prismatic, pigmentation, fugacious, fugitive, fugacity, monochromatic, monochrome, polychromy, polychromatic, suffuse, suffusion, imbuement, chromatic, achromaticcolornoun
Associated words:
polychrome, party-colored, variegated, variegationcolornoun
Antonyms:
decoloration, colorlessnessSynonyms:
ruddiness, redness, flush, blush, rosiness, semblance, pretext, variety, shade, kind, speciescolornoun
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decoloration, colorlessnessSynonyms:
flagcolorverb
Antonyms:
decolor, bleach, decolorizeSynonyms:
dye, tinge, stain, imbue, tint, tincture, variegate, falsify, pervert, garble, palliate, gloss, distort, blush, flush
How to use COLOR in a sentence?
For many of us, we haven’t been critical necessarily of the race of the officer whether or not they are White, Black, Hispanic or otherwise, but it’s the system. And what you are seeing over and over, again and again, is a system that perpetuates violence against people of color.
In the past few weeks, our city has grappled with a crisis all too common in so many other American cities -- the dissolution of trust between communities of color and law enforcement -- following the death of a young black man shot and killed by police officers.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
What I would say, though, is that they have the benefit of privilege to be able to distance and disassociate themselves from certain issues. Me, as a woman of color, I feel vulnerable to certain behaviors, certain policies and certain things that he’s said and done.
In the past year, we have heard stories across our country of African Americans questioning the appraisal process and the values assigned to their homes, this shows how systemic racism continues to haunt neighborhoods of color.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#696 | color | |
#854 | fact | |
#2276 | truth | |
#2515 | reality | |
#9585 | transparency | |
#10612 | simplicity | |
#13655 | honesty | |
#18813 | openness | |
#27844 | sincerity | |
#40152 | actuality | |
#46855 | candor | |
#50273 | truthfulness | |
#63583 | nakedness | |
#85657 | frankness | |
#94721 | discolor | |
#97212 | genuineness | |
#172726 | paleness |
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