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| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pigment, shade |
| Synonyms: | blush, cast, coloring, complexion, dye, glow, hue, intensity, iridescence, luminosity, paint, saturation, stain, tincture, tinge, tint, undertone, value, wash, chroma, chromaticity, chromatism, chromism, colorant, coloration, pigmentation, polychromasia, tinct |
| 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, crayon, crimson, darken, daub, dye, embellish, emblazon, enamel, enliven, flush, gild, glaze, gloss, illuminate, imbue, infuse, lacquer, paint, pigment, redden, rouge, stain, stipple, suffuse, tinge, tint, tone, wash, chalk, fresco, pinken, variegate |
| Antonyms: | discolor, pale, whiten |
| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceptive appearance |
| Synonyms: | deception, disguise, excuse, facade, face, front, guise, mask, plea, pretense, pretext, semblance, show, false show, put-on |
| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distort, exaggerate |
| Synonyms: | angle*, belie, cook up*, disguise, doctor*, embroider*, fake, falsify, fudge*, garble, magnify, misrepresent, misstate, overstate, pad*, pervert, prejudice, slant*, taint, twist*, warp*, gloss over |
| Antonyms: | represent, be truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
crude, Day, allochroous, bright, chromatic, colored, colorific, deep, double, flashy, flaunting, florid, fresh, gairish, garish, gaudy, gay, glaring, gorgeous, harmonious, high, intense, iridal, iridian, isochroous, mellow, multicolored, pavonine, pearly, polychromatic, prismatic, prismatoidal, raw, rich, showy, sweet, tinctorial, tingent, unfaded, vivid
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-nouns
color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush; tone, key., pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive color, complementary color; three primaries; spectrum, chromatic dispersion; broken color, secondary color, tertiary color., local color, coloring, keeping, tone, value, aerial perspective., [Science of color] chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy; chromatism, chromatography, chromatology; prism, spectroscope., pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain; medium; mordant; oil paint, painting [more].
-verbs
color, dye, tinge, stain, tint, tinct, paint, wash, ingrain, grain, illuminate, emblazon, bedizen, imbue; paint (fine art) [more].
-adjectives
colored; colorific, tingent, tinctorial; chromatic, prismatic; full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored; doubly-dyed; polychromatic; chromatogenous; tingible., bright, vivid, intense, deep; fresh, unfaded; rich, gorgeous; gay., gaudy, florid; gay, garish; rainbow-colored, multihued; showy, flaunting, flashy; raw, crude; glaring, flaring; discordant, inharmonious., mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.
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| Antonyms: | achromatism |
| Main Entry: | blush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pink coloring |
| Synonyms: | bloom, blossom, burning, color, flush, glow, glowing, flushing, mantling, pink tinge, reddening, redness, rosiness, rosy tint, ruddiness, scarlet |
| Antonyms: | paleness, whiteness, pallidity |
| Main Entry: | blush |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become colored, pinken |
| Synonyms: | color, crimson, flush, glow, mantle, redden, rouge, have rosy cheeks, turn red, turn scarlet |
| Antonyms: | blanch, pale |
| 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, dress, facade, face, false front*, front*, guise, illusion, make-believe, mask, masquerade, pageant, pen name, pretense, pretension, pseudonym, red herring*, screen, semblance, smoke screen*, trickery, veil, veneer, dissimulation, faking, fig leaf, get-up, pretentiousness, put-on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, front, fudge*, garble, hide, make up, masquerade, muffle, obfuscate, obscure, pretend, put on an act*, redo, screen, secrete, sham, shroud, simulate, touch up, varnish, veil, whitewash*, cover up, doctor up, gloss over, make like, put on a false front, put on a front, put up a front, wear cheaters |
| Antonyms: | expose, open, represent, reveal, uncover, unmask |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | distort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deform; falsify |
| Synonyms: | alter, angle, belie, bend, bias, buckle, change, collapse, color, con, contort, crush, curve, deceive, decline, deteriorate, deviate, disfigure, doctor*, fake, fudge*, garble, knot, lie, mangle, melt, misconstrue, misinterpret, misrepresent, pervert, sag, scam*, slant, slump, snow*, torture, twist, warp, whitewash*, wind, wrench, writhe, gnarl, make out like, misshape, phony up, put one on, trump up |
| Antonyms: | beautify, straight, shape nicely |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dye |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coloring agent |
| Synonyms: | color, pigment, stain, tincture, tinge, tint, colorant, dyestuff |
| Antonyms: | bleach, whitener |
| Main Entry: | embellish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make beautiful; decorate |
| Synonyms: | adorn, amplify, array, beautify, bedeck, color, deck, dress up*, elaborate, embroider, enhance, enrich, exaggerate, festoon, fix up*, fudge*, garnish, gild, grace, magnify, ornament, overstate, spruce up*, trim, add bells and whistles, emblaze, give details, gussy up, spiff up |
| Antonyms: | deface, disfigure, mar, simplify, spoil, uglify |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emblazon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adorn |
| Synonyms: | beautify, brighten, color, deck, decorate, do up*, embellish, fix up, ornament, paint, spruce up, add finishing touches, gussy up, jazz up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exaggerate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overstate, embellish |
| Synonyms: | amplify, boast, boost, brag, build up, caricature, color, cook up*, corrupt, distort, embroider, emphasize, enlarge, exalt, expand, fabricate, falsify, fudge*, heighten, hike, inflate, intensify, lie, magnify, misrepresent, overdo, pad*, puff, put on, pyramid*, romance, scam, stretch, up*, blow out of proportion, go to extremes, hyperbolize, lay it on thick, loud talk, make too much of, misquote, misreport, overdraw, overemphasize, overestimate, pretty up, romanticize |
| Antonyms: | depreciate, minimize, play down, reduce, understate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | facade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appearance, often deceptive |
| Synonyms: | beard*, bluff, color, disguise, exterior, face, fake, false front*, front, guise, look, mask, phony, pretense, semblance, show, veneer, window dressing*, false colors, frontage, put-on |
| Antonyms: | character, personality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | falsify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | alter, misrepresent |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, belie, change, color, con, contort, contradict, contravene, cook, counterfeit, deacon, deceive, deny, distort, doctor, dress up*, embroider, equivocate, exaggerate, fake, fib, forge, garble, gloss, lie, misstate, palter, pervert, prevaricate, promote, put on an act*, salt*, traverse, twist, warp, fake it, four-flush, frame up, misquote, phony up, tamper with, trump up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blush |
| Synonyms: | bloom, color, freshness, glow, pinkness, redness, rosiness, ruddiness |
| Antonyms: | pale |
| Main Entry: | fudge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fake, misrepresent |
| Synonyms: | avoid, color, cook up*, dodge, embellish, embroider, equivocate, evade, exaggerate, falsify, hedge, magnify, overstate, pad, patch, shuffle, slant, stall |
| Antonyms: | tell truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gaiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness, celebration |
| Synonyms: | animation, brightness, cheer, color, conviviality, effervescence, elation, entertainment, exhilaration, festivity, frolic, fun, geniality, gladness, glee, glitter, good humor*, hilarity, joie de vivre, jollity, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, radiance, revel, revelry, shindig*, sparkle, sport, vivacity, blitheness, brilliance, colorfulness, grins, high spirits, joviality, joyousness, pleasantness, reveling, showiness, sprightliness, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | sadness, solemnity, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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