1. color - noun
· a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
Synonym(s): colour, coloring, colouring
Hypernym(s): visual_property
Antonym(s): colorlessness
2. color - noun
· interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
Hypernym(s): interest, interestingness
3. color - noun
· the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
Synonym(s): colour, coloration, colouration
Hypernym(s): timbre, timber, quality, tone
4. color - noun
· an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color"
Synonym(s): semblance, gloss, colour
Hypernym(s): appearance, visual_aspect
5. color - noun
· any material used for its color; "she used a different color for the trim"
Synonym(s): coloring_material, colouring_material, colour
6. color - noun
· (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; "each flavor of quarks comes in three colors"
Synonym(s): colour
Hypernym(s): kind, sort, form, variety
7. color - noun
· the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
Synonym(s): colour
Hypernym(s): appearance, visual_aspect
8. color - verb
· add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
Synonym(s): colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color_in, colour_in
Hypernym(s): change, alter, modify
Antonym(s): discolor
9. color - verb
· affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
Synonym(s): tinge, colour, distort
Hypernym(s): affect, impact, bear_upon, bear_on, touch_on, touch
10. color - verb
· modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"
Synonym(s): colour
Hypernym(s): influence, act_upon, work
11. color - verb
· decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
Hypernym(s): decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
12. color - verb
· give a deceptive explanation or excuse for; "color a lie"
Hypernym(s): apologize, apologise, excuse, rationalize, rationalise
13. color - verb
· change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"
Synonym(s): discolor, discolour, colour
Hypernym(s): change
14. color - adjective
· having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
Synonym(s): colour
Antonym(s): black-and-white
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