Definition

Noun: 1. A trademarked method of making color motion pictures: A specific, historically significant process for producing films in color, known for its vivid, saturated hues. This is the primary and trademarked meaning. 2. (figurative) Vivid, artificial, or garish color: Used to describe anything characterized by intensely bright, often unrealistic or exaggerated colors.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Trademarked process):
  • The 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" famously transitions from black and white to glorious Technicolor.
  • Early Technicolor films required special cameras and a complex dye-transfer printing process.
• Noun (Figurative meaning):
  • The sunset was not just orange and pink; it was a full technicolor display. (Note: often lowercase in figurative use).
  • Her dream was in vivid technicolor, more bright and clear than reality.

Advanced Usage

• "in technicolor": Used as an adverbial phrase to describe something happening with extreme vividness, intensity, or detail, often related to visual description or emotion.
  • She described the accident in technicolor, leaving nothing to the imagination.
  • My fear played out in my mind in full technicolor.

Variants and Related Words

• Technicolored (adj): Having the bright, saturated colors characteristic of the Technicolor process.
  • He has a technicolored view of the past, remembering only the happy times.
• Technicolor®: The registered trademark form, emphasizing the specific company and process.

Synonyms

• Vivid color
• Kaleidoscopic color
• Garish color (when implying excessive brightness)

Related Idioms

• "Like something out of a technicolor dream": Describing something unrealistically perfect, beautiful, or vividly imaginative.
  • The tropical lagoon was like something out of a technicolor dream.

Noun

1. a trademarked method of making color motion pictures