What are some opposite words for colour?
Antonyms for colour
ˈkʌl ərcolour
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term colour.
Wiktionary
colournoun
Synonyms:
tinge, influence, tint, call, blush, affect, paint, shade, stain, dyecolournoun
colournoun
colourverb
To give something colour.
We could colour the walls red.
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blee, shade, paint, call, tint, blush, dye, tinge, influence, affect, staincolourverb
To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers or crayons.
My son loves to colour.
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paint, influence, tint, affect, blush, stain, shade, call, dye, tingecolournoun
Of a face: To become red through increased blood flow, implying due to strong emotion.
Her face coloured as she realised her mistake.
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influence, dye, shade, tinge, stain, blush, call, affect, paint, tintcolournoun
To affect without completely changing.
That interpretation certainly colours my perception of the book.
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race, ethnicity, blee, complexion, paint, affect, shade, tinge, stain, call, dye, tint, influence, blushcolournoun
To attribute a quality to.
Colour me confused.
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interest, shade, affect, influence, call, tint, paint, dye, tinge, blush, staincolournoun
: Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal.
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staincolournoun
A standard or banner.
The loss of their colours destroyed the regiment's morale.
colournoun
The system of colour television.
This film is broadcast in colour.
Synonyms:
colour television
Princeton's WordNet
coloring material, colouring material, color, colournoun
any material used for its color
"she used a different color for the trim"
Synonyms:
gloss, people of colour, color, coloring, colouration, coloring material, colouring material, semblance, 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)
Synonyms:
color, gloss, people of colour, semblance, coloring, colouration, coloring material, colouring material, 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"
Synonyms:
color, gloss, people of colour, semblance, coloring, colouration, coloring material, colouring material, colouring, vividness, coloration, people of colorcolor, 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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color, gloss, people of colour, chroma, semblance, coloring, colouration, coloring material, 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"
Synonyms:
color, gloss, people of colour, semblance, coloring, colouration, coloring material, colouring material, colouring, vividness, coloration, people of colorcolor, 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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coloring, colouring, colouring material, people of color, vividness, people of colour, colouration, food colouring, semblance, color, coloration, food color, gloss, food coloring, coloring material, food coloursemblance, 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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coloring, colouring, illusion, coloring material, polish, glossary, people of colour, vividness, colouring material, color, glossiness, semblance, likeness, coloration, colouration, rubric, gloss, burnish, 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
Synonyms:
color, gloss, people of colour, semblance, coloring, colouration, coloring material, 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"
Synonyms:
colorcolor, colourverb
modify or bias
"His political ideas color his lectures"
Synonyms:
color in, colorize, emblazon, color, 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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color in, colorize, emblazon, color, blazon, 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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color in, comment, colorize, emblazon, annotate, color, 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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warp, discolor, touch, strain, wring, twist, deform, tinct, tint, colourise, colourize, colorize, contort, emblazon, distort, garble, color, twine, colour in, tinge, color in, gloss, colorise, falsify, discolourcolor, 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"
Synonyms:
color in, colorize, emblazon, color, colorise, discolor, tinge, colourise, colourize, gloss, discolour, colour in, distortdiscolor, discolour, colour, colorverb
change color, often in an undesired manner
"The shirts discolored"
Synonyms:
gloss, colorize, discolor, color in, colorise, tinge, emblazon, color, colourize, colourise, discolour, colour in, distort
How to use colour in a sentence?
A new record price for a ruby, in over 40 years, I cannot recall ever having seen another Burmese ruby of this exceptional size possessing such outstanding colour.
Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey:
Let Africans remain good Africans and not a poor copy of Europeans. In the whole wide world, Africa my Africa came first. I'm proud of my colour whosoever is not proud of his colour is not fit to live. Only the best for Africa.
The only thing that bottled orange juice has going for it, is its attractive colour.
Maybe there should be an all-black' Friends' or an all-Asian' Friends,' but I was well aware of the lack of diversity and I campaigned for years to have Ross date women of colour. One of the first girlfriends I had on the show was an Asian-American woman, and later I dated African-American women. That was a very conscious push on my part.
Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray:
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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