| Main Entry: | beige |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | light brown color |
Synonyms: |
biscuit, buff, café au lait, camel, cream, ecru, fawn, khaki, mushroom, neutral, oatmeal, off-white, sand, tan, taupe |
| Main Entry: | brown |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark, burnished color |
Synonyms: |
amber, auburn, bay, beige, bister, brick, bronze, buff, burnt sienna, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, coffee, copper, drab, dust, ecru, fawn, ginger, hazel, henna, khaki, mahogany, nut, ochre, puce, russet, rust, sepia, snuff-colored, sorrel, tan, tawny, terra-cotta, toast, umber |
| Main Entry: | insipid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, uninteresting |
Synonyms: |
anemic, arid, banal, beige, blah*, bland, characterless, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, driveling, dry, feeble, flat, ho-hum, inane, innocuous, jejune, lifeless, limp, mild, mundane, nebbish, nothing, ordinary, plain, pointless, prosaic, prosy, slight, soft*, spiritless, stale, stupid, subdued, tame, tedious, tenuous, thin, tired, trite, unimaginative, vapid, watery, weak, weariful, wearisome, wishy-washy |
| Notes: | sipid - of pleasing taste, flavor, or character - is the opposite of insipid |
Antonyms: |
exciting, exhilarating, interesting, pleasing |
| Main Entry: | tan |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | light brown |
Synonyms: |
beige, biscuit, bronze, brown, brownish, buff, cream, drab, ecru, gold, khaki, leather-colored, natural, olive, olive-brown, saddle, sand, suntan, tawny, umber, yellowish |
| Main Entry: | ecru |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very light brown |
Synonyms: |
beige, tan |
| Main Entry: | tawny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brownish |
Synonyms: |
beige, bronze, brown, dusky, olive, swarthy, tanned |
| Main Entry: | brown |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
Related
Adjectives: |
brown, aithochrous, auburn, bay, bronze, brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brunette, brunneous, butterscotch, café au lait, castaneous, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, coffee, dapple, fawn, fulvous, fuscous, ginger, glandaceous, khaki, liver, mahogany, maroon, mousy, nut, russet, snuff, tan, tanned, tawny, tortoiseshell, whity
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| Concept: | Brown. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; specific light |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
brown, brunet, brunette., [Pigments] bister, ocher, sepia, Vandyke brown.
-verbs
render brown; tan, embrown, bronze.
-adjectives
brown, bay, dapple, auburn, castaneous, chestnut, nut-brown, cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous, chocolate, maroon, foxy, tan, brunette, whitey brown; fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-colored; brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves; khaki., sun-burnt, sunburned, tawny; tanned.
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