Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Color

Nouns
  • color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush
  • tone, key. pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive 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. [instruments to measure color] prism, spectroscope, spectrograph, spectrometer, colorimeter (optical instruments) Optical Instruments. pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain
  • medium
  • mordant
  • oil paint etc. (painting) Painting.
Verbs
  • color, dye, tinge, stain, tint, tinct, paint, wash, ingrain, grain, illuminate, emblazon, bedizen, imbue
  • paint etc. (fine art) Painting.
Adjectives
  • colored etc. v.
  • 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.