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coloring - 20 thesaurus results
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, magnify, misrepresent, misstate, overstate, pad*, pervert, prejudice, slant*, taint, twist*, warp*, gloss over |
| Antonyms: | represent, be truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | connotation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | implication |
| Synonyms: | association, coloring, essence, hint, meaning, nuance, overtone, significance, suggestion, undertone |
| Antonyms: | denotation |
| 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: | distortion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deformity; falsification |
| Synonyms: | baloney*, bend, bias, buckle, coloring, contortion, crock, exaggeration, jazz*, lie, line, malformation, misrepresentation, misstatement, misuse, perversion, slant, smoke*, story*, torture, twist, warp, BS, crookedness, intorsion, jive*, malconformation, misinterpretation, misshape, mutilation, tall story, twistedness |
| Antonyms: | beauty, clarity, perfection |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | embellishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beautification; decorating |
| Synonyms: | adornment, coloring, decoration, doodad*, elaboration, embroidery, enhancement, enrichment, exaggeration, frill, fuss*, garnish, hyperbole, jazz*, ornament, ornamentation, ostentation, overstatement, embroidering, fandangle, floridity, flowery speech, froufrou, gilding, gingerbread, icing on the cake |
| Antonyms: | injury, disfigurement, simplification, spoliation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | equivocation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avoidance of an issue |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, casuistry, coloring, con, cop out, cover, cover-up, deceit, deception, delusion, distortion, double entendre, double talk, duplicity, evasion, fallacy, fib, lie, line*, lying, misrepresentation, prevarication, run-around, song*, song and dance*, sophistry, stall, stonewall*, waffle*, amphibology, deceptiveness, dissimulation, double meaning, doubtfulness, equivocality, fibbing, hedging, quibbling routine, shuffling, speciousness, spuriousness, tergiversation |
| Antonyms: | facing, meeting, directness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overstatement, embellishment |
| Synonyms: | amplification, baloney*, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock*, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story*, flight of fancy*, hogwash*, hyperbole, inflation, jazz*, line*, misrepresentation, pretension, rant, romance, stretch, untruth, whopper*, yarn*, aggrandizement, magnification, misjudgment, overemphasis, overestimation, pretentiousness, tall story |
| Antonyms: | reduction, understatement, minimization, unembellishment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hyperbole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggeration |
| Synonyms: | amplification, big talk*, coloring*, distortion, embellishment, enlargement, hype*, metaphor, overstatement, PR, embroidering, laying it on thick, magnification, mountain out of molehill, tall talk |
| Antonyms: | understatement |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | misrepresentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falsehood |
| Synonyms: | adulteration, coloring, distortion, exaggeration, fabrication, lie, misstatement, slant, story*, stretch, twist, untruth, false light, falsification, mutilation, not a true picture, tall story |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | misstatement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misrepresentation |
| Synonyms: | adulteration, coloring, distortion, exaggeration, fabrication, falsehood, inaccuracy, lie, misstatement, slant, story*, stretch, twist, untruth, false light, falsification, mutilation, not a true picture, tall story |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | paint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tinted covering |
| Synonyms: | color, coloring, cosmetic, dye, enamel, flat, gloss, makeup, oil, overlay, pigment, rouge, stain, varnish, veneer, wax, acrylic, chroma, emulsion, greasepaint, latex, tempera |
| Main Entry: | pigment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | color, shade |
| Synonyms: | coloring, dye, oil, paint, stain, tincture, tint, colorant, coloring matter, dyestuff |
| Antonyms: | colorlessness |
| Main Entry: | pretext |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disguise; alleged reason |
| Synonyms: | affectation, alibi, appearance, bluff, cloak, color*, coloring*, cover, cover-up*, device, excuse, face, feint, front, guise, mask, masquerade, plea, ploy, pretense, red herring*, routine, ruse, semblance, show, simulation, song and dance*, stall, stratagem, subterfuge, veil*, cleanup, cop-out, cover story, fig leaf |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | veil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disguise |
| Synonyms: | blind, cloak, coloring, cover, curtain, facade, false front, film, front, guise, mask, screen, shade, shroud, mantilla, veiling |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | complexion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skin coloring, appearance |
| Synonyms: | cast, color, coloring, flush, front, glow, hue, mug*, skin, texture, tinge, tint, tone, coloration, looks, phiz, pigmentation, skin tone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tinge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | color |
| Synonyms: | cast, coloring, dye, hue, pigment, shade, stain, tincture, tint, tone, wash, colorant, coloration, dyestuff, nib |
| Antonyms: | white |
| Main Entry: | front |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appearance put on for show |
| Synonyms: | air, aspect, bearing, blind, carriage, coloring, countenance, cover, cover-up*, demeanor, disguise, display, expression, exterior, facade, face, fake, figure, manner, mask, mien, phony, port, presence, pretext, show, veil, window dressing*, put-on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | belie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive |
| Synonyms: | color, conceal, disguise, distort, falsify, garble, hide, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warp, give the lie to, gloss over, miscolor, trump up |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
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