| Main Entry: | emblazon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adorn |
Synonyms: |
add finishing touches, beautify, brighten, color, deck, decorate, do up, embellish, fix up, gussy up, jazz up, ornament, paint, spruce up |
| 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 |
| 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: | display |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | show for public viewing, effect |
Synonyms: |
advertise, arrange, bare, betray, boast, brandish, bring to view, demonstrate, disclose, emblazon, evidence, evince, exhibit, expand, expose, extend, feature, flash, flaunt, flourish, glaze, grandstand, illustrate, impart, lay bare, lay out, make clear, make known, manifest, model, open, open out, parade, perform, present, promote, promulgate, publish, represent, reveal, set out, show off, showcase, sport, spread out, stretch out, trot out, uncover, unfold, unfurl, unmask, unroll, unveil, vamp |
Antonyms: |
conceal, cover, hide, secrete, withhold |
| Main Entry: | trim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decorate |
Synonyms: |
adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, beribbon, deck, dress, dress up, embellish, emblazon, embroider, garnish, ornament, prank, pretty up, prink, spangle, spruce up |
| Main Entry: | blazon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adorn |
Synonyms: |
announce, blare, boast, broadcast, deck, declare, depict, description, display, embellish, emblazon, exhibit, inscribe, proclaim, publish, show |
| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
Related
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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| Concept: | Color. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; specific light |
Synonyms: |
-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).
-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 |
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