Word

color, n.
(colors)
freq. cnt. 58

a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
<noun.attribute> freq. cnt.: 48 freq. cnt.: 48

color coloring colour colouring

sample sentences

"a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

colorist color color color colorize

antonym

colorlessness

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

color

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

colour

semantic pointers

attribute

colored, coloured, colorful uncolored, uncoloured

hypernym

visual property

hyponym

primary color, primary colour heather mixture, heather mottle shade, tone, tint, tincture chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour achromatic color, achromatic colour coloration, colouration complexion, skin color, skin colour nonsolid color, nonsolid colour, dithered color, dithered colour

interest and variety and intensity
<noun.attribute> freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 1

color colour vividness

sample sentences

"the Puritan Period was lacking in color"
"the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

vivid vivid

semantic pointers

attribute

colorful, colourful colorless, colourless

hypernym

interest, interestingness

the timbre of a musical sound
<noun.attribute> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3

color coloration colour colouration

sample sentences

"the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"

semantic pointers

hypernym

tone, quality, timbre, timber

an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
<noun.attribute> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

color colour gloss semblance

sample sentences

"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"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

gloss

semantic pointers

hypernym

appearance, visual aspect

hyponym

color of law, colour of law simulacrum face value pretence, guise, pretense, pretext disguise, camouflage verisimilitude

the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
<noun.attribute>

color colour

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

colorist

semantic pointers

hypernym

appearance, visual aspect

(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
<noun.cognition>

color colour