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. Cesar Miranda:

   It's just hard to believe that someone can have the heart to do that to somebody, to hurt someone just because they believe you're Mexican, believe you are Latino, or your skin color and just think you don't deserve to be here.

2. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

   At the heart of the struggle of women, people of color, the disabled, the poor, organized workers, immigrants, religious minorities, atheists,and sexual minorities is the radical belief that we are all created equal and deserve the right to life, liberty and pursuits of happiness.

3. Learned Hand:

   Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

4. Tiffany Cross:

   They're really a conservative group who is using the face of Asian students to say that they're taking admissions access from Asian students to give them to black and brown people, it's interesting that the privileged people will have other people of color thinking that we stole something from them. They're not going after privileged people.

5. Hal Borland:

   A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.