Definition of colouring
noun:
- a digestible substance used to give color to food; "food color made from vegetable dyes". Synonyms: coloring, food color, food coloring, food colour, food colouring.
- 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". Synonyms: color, coloring, colour. Antonyms: colorlessness.
- the act or process of changing the color of something. Synonyms: coloring.
verb:
- modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures". Synonyms: color, colour.
- decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones". Synonyms: color, colour, emblazon.
- give a deceptive explanation or excuse for; "color a lie". Synonyms: color, colour, gloss.
- affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case", "The sadness tinged his life". Synonyms: color, colour, distort, tinge.
- add color to; "The child colored the drawings", "Fall colored the trees", "colorize black and white film". Synonyms: color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize. Antonyms: discolor.
- change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored". Synonyms: color, colour, discolor, discolour.
Related words
aurify, azure, black, blacken, blackwash, blanch, blench, blotch, blue, blush, bronze, brown, burn, coloration, colouration, complexion, crimson, dye, dyeing, embrown, empurple, flush, gray, green, grey, handcolor, handcolour, heather, hue, imbue, incarnadine, melanise, melanize, miniate, motley, mottle, nigrify, pale, pigment, pinkify, polychrome, polychromise, polychromize, purple, purpurate, redden, retouch, shade, silver, streak, sunburn, tan, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tinting, tone, touch, turn, verdigris, white, whiten, yellow.
Words nearby
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Rhymes with
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