Overview of noun color

The noun color has 8 senses

• color, colour, coloring, colouring -- (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")


• color, colour, vividness -- (interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness")


• color, colour, coloration, colouration -- (the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music")


• color, colour, people of color, people of colour -- (a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks))


• semblance, gloss, color, colour -- (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")


• coloring material, colouring material, color, colour -- (any material used for its color; "she used a different color for the trim")


• color, colour -- ((physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; "each flavor of quarks comes in three colors")


• color, colour -- (the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation)

Overview of verb color

The verb color has 6 senses

• color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in -- (add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film")


• tinge, color, colour, distort -- (affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life")


• color, colour -- (modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures")


• color, colour, emblazon -- (decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones")


• color, colour, gloss -- (give a deceptive explanation or excuse for; "color a lie")


• discolor, discolour, colour, color -- (change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored")

Overview of adj color

The adj color has 1 sense

• color, colour -- (having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations")