Synonyms for COLOR
ˈkʌl ərcol·or

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1. color

   A pretense, in the unfavorable, which is also the usual sense, is something advanced or displayed for the purpose of concealing the reality. A person makes a pretense of something for the credit or advantage to be gained by it; he makes what is allowed or approved a pretext for doing what would be opposed or condemned; a tricky schoolboy makes a pretense of doing an errand which he does not do, or he makes the actual doing of an errand a pretext for playing truant. A ruse is something (especially something slight or petty) employed to blind or deceive so as to mask an ulterior design, and enable a person to gain some end that he would not be allowed to approach directly. A pretension is a claim that is or may be contested; the word is now commonly used in an unfavorable sense. Compare ARTIFICE; HYPOCRISY.

   Synonyms:
   affectation, air, assumption, cloak, disguise, dissimulation, excuse, mask, pretense, pretension, pretext, ruse, seeming, semblance, show, simulation, subterfuge, trick, wile

   Antonyms:
   actuality, candor, fact, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, ingenuousness, openness, reality, simplicity, sincerity, truth

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1. color

   Synonyms:
   hue, tint, complexion, pretense, speciousness, tinge, garbling, falsification, distortion, perversion, varnish

   Antonyms:
   achromatism, paleness, nakedness, openness, genuineness, transparency, truthfulness

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1. color, colour, coloring, colouringnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   coloring, colouring, colouring material, people of color, vividness, colour, people of colour, colouration, food colouring, semblance, color, coloration, food color, gloss, food coloring, coloring material, food colour

   Antonyms:
   achromaticity, colourlessness, colorlessness, achromatism, black-and-white, black and white(p), discolor

2. color, colour, vividnessnoun

   interest and variety and intensity

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

   Synonyms:
   color, gloss, people of colour, chroma, semblance, coloring, colouration, coloring material, colour, intensity, saturation, colouring material, colouring, vividness, coloration, people of color

   Antonyms:
   achromatism, achromaticity, colorlessness, colourlessness, black-and-white, black and white(p), discolor

3. color, colour, coloration, colourationnoun

   the timbre of a musical sound

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

   Synonyms:
   color, gloss, people of colour, semblance, coloring, colouration, coloring material, colour, colouring material, colouring, vividness, coloration, people of color

   Antonyms:
   achromatism, achromaticity, colorlessness, colourlessness, black-and-white, black and white(p), discolor

4. color, colour, people of color, people of colournoun

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

   Synonyms:
   color, gloss, people of colour, semblance, coloring, colouration, coloring material, colour, colouring material, colouring, vividness, coloration, people of color

   Antonyms:
   colourlessness, colorlessness, achromaticity, achromatism, black and white(p), black-and-white, discolor

5. semblance, gloss, color, colournoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   coloring, colouring, illusion, coloring material, polish, glossary, people of colour, vividness, colour, colouring material, color, glossiness, semblance, likeness, coloration, colouration, rubric, gloss, burnish, people of color

   Antonyms:
   achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness, achromaticity, black and white(p), black-and-white, discolor

6. coloring material, colouring material, color, colournoun

   any material used for its color

   "she used a different color for the trim"

   Synonyms:
   gloss, people of colour, color, coloring, colouration, coloring material, colour, colouring material, semblance, colouring, vividness, coloration, people of color

   Antonyms:
   colourlessness, achromaticity, achromatism, colorlessness, black-and-white, black and white(p), discolor

7. color, colournoun

   (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction

   "each flavor of quarks comes in three colors"

   Synonyms:
   color, gloss, people of colour, semblance, coloring, colouration, coloring material, colour, colouring material, colouring, vividness, coloration, people of color

   Antonyms:
   achromatism, achromaticity, colourlessness, colorlessness, black and white(p), black-and-white, discolor

8. color, colouradjective

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

   Synonyms:
   color, gloss, people of colour, semblance, coloring, colouration, coloring material, colour, colouring material, colouring, vividness, coloration, people of color

   Antonyms:
   colourlessness, colorlessness, achromaticity, achromatism, black-and-white, black and white(p), discolor

9. color, colourverb

   having or capable of producing colors

   "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"

   Synonyms:
   colour, color

   Antonyms:
   achromaticity, colorlessness, achromatism, colourlessness, black-and-white, black and white(p), discolor

10. color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour inverb

    add color to

    "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"

    Synonyms:
    color in, colorize, emblazon, color, colour, colorise, discolor, tinge, colourise, colourize, gloss, discolour, colour in, distort

    Antonyms:
    colorlessness, colourlessness, achromatism, achromaticity, black and white(p), black-and-white, discolor

11. tinge, color, colour, distortverb

    affect as in thought or feeling

    "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"

    Synonyms:
    warp, discolor, touch, strain, wring, twist, deform, tinct, tint, colourise, colourize, colorize, contort, colour, emblazon, distort, garble, color, twine, colour in, tinge, color in, gloss, colorise, falsify, discolour

    Antonyms:
    achromatism, achromaticity, colourlessness, colorlessness, black and white(p), black-and-white, discolor

12. color, colourverb

    modify or bias

    "His political ideas color his lectures"

    Synonyms:
    color in, colorize, emblazon, color, colour, colorise, discolor, tinge, colourise, colourize, gloss, discolour, colour in, distort

    Antonyms:
    achromaticity, colourlessness, achromatism, colorlessness, black and white(p), black-and-white, discolor

13. color, colour, emblazonverb

    decorate with colors

    "color the walls with paint in warm tones"

    Synonyms:
    color in, colorize, emblazon, color, blazon, colour, colorise, discolor, tinge, colourise, colourize, gloss, discolour, colour in, distort

    Antonyms:
    colourlessness, achromaticity, colorlessness, achromatism, black and white(p), black-and-white, discolor

14. color, colour, glossverb

    give a deceptive explanation or excuse for

    "color a lie"

    Synonyms:
    color in, comment, colorize, emblazon, annotate, color, colour, colorise, discolor, tinge, colourise, colourize, gloss, discolour, colour in, distort

    Antonyms:
    colorlessness, colourlessness, achromaticity, achromatism, black-and-white, black and white(p), discolor

15. discolor, discolour, colour, colorverb

    change color, often in an undesired manner

    "The shirts discolored"

    Synonyms:
    gloss, colorize, discolor, color in, colorise, colour, tinge, emblazon, color, colourize, colourise, discolour, colour in, distort

    Antonyms:
    colorlessness, achromaticity, colourlessness, achromatism, black and white(p), black-and-white, discolor

Matched Categories

1. • Affect
   • Appearance
   • Change
   • Excuse
   • High-energy Physics
   • Influence
   • Interest
   • Kind
   • Timbre

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1. chrom

   color like monochrome 1 color

   monochrome rainbow

   Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

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1. colornoun

   Synonyms:
   hue, tint, tinge, shade

2. colornoun

   Synonyms:
   pigment, paint

3. colornoun

   Synonyms:
   plea, pretext, pretence, excuse, guise, disguise, semblance, appearance, make-shift, false show

4. colorverb

   Synonyms:
   tinge, dye, paint, stain

5. colorverb

   Synonyms:
   disguise, varnish, gloss over, make plausible

6. colorverb

   Synonyms:
   redden, blush, show color

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1. colornoun

   Synonyms:
   hue, shade, tinge, tincture, tint, pigment, paint, dye, stain

   Associated words:
   chromatics, colorific, colorist, chromatism, chromatology, lake, decolorant, mordant, intinctivity, iridescent, iridescence, prismatic, pigmentation, fugacious, fugitive, fugacity, monochromatic, monochrome, polychromy, polychromatic, suffuse, suffusion, imbuement, chromatic, achromatic

2. colornoun

   Associated words:
   polychrome, party-colored, variegated, variegation

3. colornoun

   Synonyms:
   ruddiness, redness, flush, blush, rosiness, semblance, pretext, variety, shade, kind, species

   Antonyms:
   decoloration, colorlessness

4. colornoun

   Synonyms:
   flag

   Antonyms:
   decoloration, colorlessness

5. colorverb

   Synonyms:
   dye, tinge, stain, imbue, tint, tincture, variegate, falsify, pervert, garble, palliate, gloss, distort, blush, flush

   Antonyms:
   decolor, bleach, decolorize

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1. List of paraphrases for "color":

   colour, colors, colored, colours, coloured, coloring, colorful, staining, colourful, complexion, colouring, lone, colouration, coloration, chroma, hue

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1. Ebony Harris:

   But maybe, spread awareness that no matter the person, who they are, what color they are, disability, whatever, they’re people too. She’s a girly girl. She’s just like you, me, Tasia, my daughter, anybody. She wants to look pretty, you know, and so why can’t she?

2. Gregory Meeks:

   There is a new generation of Latina leaders who are knitting together people of color and progressive whites in an impressive coalition.

3. Peter Buffett:

   Our goal is to create the conditions for change by advancing the work of the real experts in this movement : girls and young women of color and the advocates working with them, novo.

4. Vivienne Rudd:

   South Korea is really the hot market for innovation and it's even overtaken markets like Japan as the place where everyone looks for the experts in skincare. The Chinese are fascinated by facial skincare and by face color cosmetics, south Korean women are very much held up as the standard of beauty across Asia.

5. Willy Moosayar:

   You know, we were excited to have Kamala — a woman of color, the daughter of an immigrant — in our government as a vice first female vice president because we thought we can connect with her, she will feel for us, but it's been a total disappointment, which is why we were there.