| Main Entry: | belie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive |
Synonyms: |
color, conceal, disguise, distort, falsify, garble, give the lie to, gloss over, hide, miscolor, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, trump up, twist, warp |
Antonyms: |
be honest |
| Main Entry: | blush |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become colored, pinken |
Synonyms: |
color, crimson, flush, glow, have rosy cheeks, mantle, redden, rouge, turn red, turn scarlet |
Antonyms: |
blanch, pale |
| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pigment, shade |
Synonyms: |
blush, cast, chroma, chromaticity, chromatism, chromism, colorant, coloration, coloring, complexion, dye, glow, hue, intensity, iridescence, luminosity, paint, pigmentation, polychromasia, saturation, stain, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, undertone, value, wash |
| Notes: | color refers to the wavelength composition of light, shade is a gradation of color referring to its degree of darkness, tint is a gradation referring to its degree of lightness, and hue indicates a modification of a basic color |
| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make pigmented; shade |
Synonyms: |
adorn, blacken, bloom, blush, burn, chalk, crayon, crimson, darken, daub, dye, embellish, emblazon, enamel, enliven, flush, fresco, gild, glaze, gloss, illuminate, imbue, infuse, lacquer, paint, pigment, pinken, redden, rouge, stain, stipple, suffuse, tinge, tint, tone, variegate, wash |
Antonyms: |
discolor, pale, whiten |
| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distort, exaggerate |
Synonyms: |
angle*, belie, cook up, disguise, doctor*, embroider, fake, falsify, fudge, garble, gloss over, magnify, misrepresent, misstate, overstate, pad, pervert, prejudice, slant*, taint, twist*, warp |
Antonyms: |
be truthful, represent |
| Main Entry: | complexion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skin coloring, appearance |
Synonyms: |
cast, color, coloration, coloring, flush, front, glow, hue, looks, mug, phiz, pigmentation, skin, skin tone, texture, tinge, tint, tone |
| Main Entry: | connotation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | implication |
Synonyms: |
association, coloring, essence, hint, meaning, nuance, overtone, significance, suggestion, undertone |
Antonyms: |
denotation |
| Main Entry: | decorate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beautify, embellish |
Synonyms: |
add finishing touches, adorn, bedeck, bedizen, brighten, burnish, color, deck, do up, dress out, dress up, enhance, enrich, festoon, finish, fix up, frill, furbish, garnish, gild, grace, gussy up, idealize, illuminate, jazz up, ornament, paint, perfect, prank, renovate, spruce up, trim |
| Main Entry: | disguise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | covering, makeup for deception |
Synonyms: |
beard, blind, camouflage, charade, cloak, color, coloring, concealment, costume, counterfeit, cover-up, dissimulation, dress, facade, face, faking, false front, fig leaf, front*, get-up, guise, illusion, make-believe, mask, masquerade, pageant, pen name, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, pseudonym, put-on, red herring, screen, semblance, smoke screen, trickery, veil, veneer |
| Main Entry: | disguise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mask; misrepresent |
Synonyms: |
affect, age, alter, antique, assume, beard, belie, camouflage, change, cloak, color, conceal, counterfeit, cover, cover up, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate, doctor up, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, front, fudge, garble, gloss over, hide, make like, make up, masquerade, muffle, obfuscate, obscure, pretend, put on a false front, put on a front, put on an act, put up a front, redo, screen, secrete, sham, shroud, simulate, touch up, varnish, veil, wear cheaters, whitewash |
Antonyms: |
expose, open, represent, reveal, uncover, unmask |