colour

Adjective

• having or capable of producing colors
  • color film
    
  • he rented a color television
    
  • marvelous color illustrations
    

Noun

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

• 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
    

• 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
    

• the timbre of a musical sound
  • the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music
    

• interest and variety and intensity
  • the Puritan Period was lacking in color
    
  • the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness
    

• (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
  • each flavor of quarks comes in three colors
    

• a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)

• any material used for its color
  • she used a different color for the trim
    

Verb

• change color, often in an undesired manner
  • The shirts discolored
    

• add color to
  • The child colored the drawings
    
  • Fall colored the trees
    
  • colorize black and white film
    

• affect as in thought or feeling
  • My personal feelings color my judgment in this case
    
  • The sadness tinged his life
    

• give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
  • color a lie
    

• decorate with colors
  • color the walls with paint in warm tones
    

• modify or bias
  • His political ideas color his lectures
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  color , semblance , gloss , coloring , colouring , coloration , colouration , vividness , people of color , people of colour , coloring material , colouring material , discolor , discolour , colorize , colorise , colourise , colourize , color in , colour in , tinge , distort , emblazon
• Antonyms: 
  black-and-white , black and white(p) , colorlessness , colourlessness , achromatism , achromaticity , discolor