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| abram | auburn. |
| achromic achromous | colourless. |
| aeneous aeneus | of a shining bronze colour. |
| albescent | becoming white; whiteness. |
| albugineous | like the white of an eye or an egg; white-coloured. |
| amaranthine | of a dark reddish-purple colour. |
| anatta anatto annatta annatto arnatta arnotto | a bright orange colouring matter. |
| anil | indigo, the plant or dye. |
| archil orchil orchel orchella orseille | a dye obtained from certain lichens; lichens yielding this. |
| ashen | of the colour of ash, grey. |
| atrament | blacking; ink; black dye. |
| atramental atramentous | inky black |
| auburn | a golden- or reddish-brown colour, used esp. of a person's hair. |
| aureity | the property of being golden in colour or substance. |
| azure | sky-blue. |
| azurean | azure. |
| azurine | azure; (noun) a blue-black azurine dye. |
| azurn | azure. |
| azury | a bluish colour > AZURIES |
| badious | chestnut-coloured. |
| bay | of horses, of a certain colour > BAYER, BAYEST. |
| beige | a woollen fabric of undyed wool; (adj.) greyish buff with a hint of pink > BEIGER, BEIGEST. |
| beigy | somewhat BEIGE > BEIGIER, BEIGIEST. |
| bice | a pale blue or green paint. |
| bichrome | two-coloured. |
| bicolor bicolour | something having two colours. |
| bicolored | of two colors. |
| bister bistre | a pigment with brownish colour derived from soot. |
| bistered bistred | painted with BISTER, a pigment with brownish colour derived from soot. |
| black | of the darkest colour > BLACKER, BLACKEST; (verb) to make black. |
| blackish | somewhat black. |
| blackishly | in a blackish manner. |
| blackly | |
| blae | dark blue or bluish gray; lead-colored > BLAER, BLAEST. [ON blar, livid]. |
| blanco | a white substance used for treating uniform belts etc.; (verb) to treat with this. |
| bleuatre | bluish. |
| bloncket | grey. |
| blond blonde | having blond hair > BLONDER, BLONDEST. |
| blondeness blondness | the state of being BLOND. |
| bloodred | the colour of blood. |
| blue | (verb) to impart a bluish colour to, esp. a metal > BLUED, BLUING/BLUEING. |
| blueish bluish | somewhat blue. |
| blueishness | the state of being BLUEISH. |
| bluely | with a blue color. |
| bluey | of a bluish colour > BLUIER, BLUIEST. Also a noun, a swagman's bundle of personal effects. |
| brazilein | a dyestuff obtained by the oxidation of BRAZILIN. |
| brindle | of a brindled colour. |
| brocked brockit | variegated, esp. black and white. |
| bromeosin | another name for EOSIN, a red dye stuff. |
| bronzy | like bronze > BRONZIER, BRONZIEST. |
| brown | > BROWNER, BROWNEST; (verb) to make brown. |
| brownish | somewhat brown. |
| browny | brown or, somewhat brown > BROWNIER, BROWNIEST. |
| brunet brunette | with a somewhat brown or dark complexion or hair. |
| buff | of a yellowish-brown colour. |
| buffy | of a yellowish-brown colour > BUFFIER, BUFFIEST. |
| caerule cerule | blue, cerulean. |
| caerulean cerulean ceruleous | sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green. |
| caesious cesious | bluish or greyish green. |
| canescent | hoary; tending to become white or grey. |
| canities | whitening or greying of the hair. [L. canus, grey]. |
| carmine | a deep red colour. |
| castory | a brown colour; a brown dye derived from beaver pelts. |
| celadon | a pale green colour; a kind of pale green glazed pottery. [Fr. Céladon, f. the name of a character in D'Urfé's L'Astrée]. |
| cendre | ash-blond (the e has an accent). |
| cerise | a colour, deep to vivid purplish-red. |
| cerulein | a coal-tar dyestuff, producing fast olive-greens. |
| chica chicha chico | an orange-red dye-stuff used by S. American Indians. |
| chroma | quality of colour, hue > CHROMAS. |
| cinereous | like ashes; ash-colored; grayish. |
| citreous | lemon-coloured; lemony. |
| citrine | dark greenish-yellow. |
| claret | a dark red colour. |
| claybank | brownish-yellow; (noun) a horse of this colour. |
| cochineal | a dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera. |
| colorant colourant | a substance used for colouring. |
| colorfast colourfast | having colours that retain their original hue without running or fading. |
| colorful colourful | |
| colory > COLORIER, COLORIEST | possessing colour |
| colourway colorway | one of several combinations of colours in which e.g. a patterned fabric is available. |
| coloury | full of colour > COLOURIER, COLOURIEST. |
| concolor | of the same color; of uniform color. |
| concolorate | having the same colour on both sides. |
| copen | a strong light blue colour. [From Copenhagen]. |
| coquelicot | brilliant red; poppy red. |
| corbeau | a blackish-green colour. |
| cramesy cramoisie cramoisy | crimson. |
| creamlaid | of paper, cream or white in colour with a laid watermark. |
| cremosin cremsin | crimson. |
| crimson | a deep red. |
| crimsonness | the state of being crimson > CRIMSONNESSES. |
| croceate croceous | saffron-coloured. |
| crocein crocine | a red or orange azo dye. |
| cudbear | a purple or reddish dyestuff obtained from various lichens. [From Dr. Cuthbert Gordon, a Scottish chemist]. |
| curcumin curcumine | the saffron-yellow colouring matter of TURMERIC. |
| cyan | a colour, greenish-blue. |
| cyanin | a plant pigment, blue in cornflower but red in roses because of its reaction with acids. |
| cyano | blue or dark blue. No -S hook. |
| dayglo | of a luminous green, yellow, pink or orange. No -S hook. |
| dealbate | presenting a white appearance; whitened. |
| decolor decolour | to deprive of color; to bleach. |
| dichroic | having the property of DICHROISM, i.e. having two colours; as, a dichroic crystal. |
| discolor discolour | to alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color. |
| drab | of a dull colour. |
| drabbish | somewhat drab in color. |
| dubonnet | a red colour. |
| dun | greyish brown, mouse-coloured > DUNNER, DUNNEST; (verb) to pursue for a debt. |
| dunness | the state of being dun. |
| dunnish | inclined to a dun color. |
| ecru | (having) the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like. |
| embrown imbrown | to give a brown color to. |
| empurple impurple | to color or tinge with purple. |
| encolour | to colour or tinge. |
| encrimson | to colour crimson. |
| engrain | to dye in grain, or of a fast color. |
| envermeil | to color with, or as with, vermilion. |
| eosin eosine | a red dye stuff. |
| eosinic | of or like EOSIN, a red dye-stuff. |
| erubescent | growing red; blushing. |
| erythroid | of a red color; reddish. |
| ethiops | a black substance; -- formerly applied to various preparations of a black or very dark color. |
| favel favell | light-brown, chestnut. |
| fawny | of a yellowish-brown colour > FAWNIER, FAWNIEST. |
| feldgrau | field-grey, the colour of German military uniforms. |
| ferruginous | of the colour of rust; impregnated with iron. |
| filemot philamot philomot | dead-leaf colour; dull brown. |
| flavescent | yellowish or turning yellow. |
| flavin flavine | a yellow dye made from the bark of QUERCITRON, an American oak. |
| flaxen | made of or resembling flax; (especially of hair) light yellow. |
| flushy | reddish > FLUSHIER, FLUSHIEST. |
| framboise | raspberry; a shade of pink > raspberry colour. |
| fuchsin fuchsine | an aniline dye. |
| fulvid fulvous | dull yellow, tawny. |
| fusc fuscous | brown, dingy. |
| gingerous | sandy, reddish. |
| gingery | sandy, reddish > GINGERIER, GINGERIEST. |
| glaucous | sea-green; greyish-blue. [Gk. glaukos]. |
| glaucously | (adv.) GLAUCOUS, sea-green. |
| gold | the colour of gold > GOLDER, GOLDEST. |
| golden | having the colour of gold > GOLDENER, GOLDENEST; (verb) to become golden in colour. |
| goldenly | |
| goldtone | gold-coloured. |
| gowd | gold, golden > GOWDER, GOWDEST. |
| gray | grey > GRAYER, GRAYEST; (verb) to make grey. |
| grayish | somewhat gray. |
| grayly | |
| grayness | |
| green | > GREENER, GREENEST; (verb) to make or become green. |
| greenish | somewhat green. |
| greenly | |
| greenness | |
| greenth | the state or quality of being green; verdure. |
| greeny | somewhat green in colour > GREENIER, GREENIEST; (noun) a pound note. |
| grey | GREYER, GREYEST; (verb) to make grey. |
| greyish | |
| greyly | |
| greyscale | of or relating to a scale consisting of different shades of the colour grey; (noun) a scale consisting of different shades of grey. |
| gridelin | a colour, pale purple and red. [Fr. gris-de-lin, flax grey]. |
| griesie gryesie gryesy | grey. |
| gris grise | grey; (noun) a grey fur. |
| griseous | pearl-grey or blue-grey; grizzled. |
| grisled | grizzled. 'The grisled north/Discharges such a tempest' (Pericles). N.B. there is no verb GRISLE*. |
| grizzle | to make or become grey or grey-haired. |
| grizzly | somewhat gray; grizzled > GRIZZLIER, GRIZZLIEST; (noun) a grizzly bear. |
| hawkit | streaked, white-faced. Cf. HAWKIE, a cow with a white-striped face. |
| hazelly | of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown. No comp!. |
| henna | a tree or shrub; a colour, moderate to strong reddish-brown to strong brown; (verb) to colour with henna. [Arabic hinna]. |
| hoar | grey, esp. with age; (verb) to cover with hoar. |
| hoarily | |
| hoariness | |
| hoary | grey > HOARIER, HOARIEST. |
| hore | hoar. |
| hueless | destitute of color. |
| hyacinthine | of a blue or purple colour. |
| ianthine | violet-coloured. |
| icterine | yellowish or marked with yellow. |
| icteritious | jaundiced; yellow. |
| inaurate | gilded; golden. |
| incarnadine | flesh-colored; red, esp > blood red. [L. carnis, flesh and incarnato, flesh-colored]. |
| indigo | a dark blue powder used as a vat dye, orig. obtained from certain plants but now mainly made synthetically > INDIGOS or INDIGOES. |
| indigoid | a blue dye. |
| indigotic | relating to INDIGO. |
| infuscate infuscated | clouded or tinged with brown; obscured; cloudy brown colour. |
| isabel isabella isabelline | a dingy yellowish-grey or drab. |
| isochroous | of uniform colour. |
| jacinthe | an orange colour. |
| jettiness | the state of being jetty; blackness. |
| jetty | (adj.) like jet, black > JETTIER, JETTIEST; (noun) a structure similar to a GROYNE but built to keep sand out of a harbor entrance; (verb) to project, jut out. |
| kermes | a red cochineal-like dye made from dried bodies of certain female insects of Mediterranean; the evergreen oak on which these insects feed. |
| khaki | dust-coloured, dull brownish. [Urdu khaki, dusty]. |
| lateritious | brick-red in color. |
| liard lyard lyart liart | grey; dapple-grey. |
| livid | black and blue; of an ashen colour > LIVIDER, LIVIDEST. |
| lividity | |
| lividness | |
| lovat | grey-green; blue-green. |
| lutein | a yellow xanthophyll pigment present in the leaves of plants, in egg-yolk, and in the corpus luteum. |
| luteolin | a yellow dyestuff obtained from the foliage of the dyer's broom. |
| luteolous | yellowish. |
| luteous | golden-yellow; muddy. [L. lutum, mud]. |
| lutescent | yellowish. |
| lycopene | a red pigment. |
| madder | a red dye made from brazil wood. |
| magenta | reddish-purple. [From its discovery about the time of the battle of Magenta in N. Italy, 1859]. |
| mauve | any of a range of dull shades of purple between lilac and maroon > MAUVER, MAUVEST. |
| mauvein mauveine mauvin mauvine | a mauve dye |
| mazarine | a rich blue or reddish-blue colour. |
| melanosity | the state of being MELANOUS, swarthy. |
| melanous | swarthy, with a black complexion. |
| minium | vermilion; red lead > MINIUMS not MINIA*. |
| modena | a dark purple color. [From the N. Italian city of Modena]. |
| monochroic | of one colour. |
| multihued | with many hues. |
| nacarat | a bright orange-red; a fabric so coloured. |
| nigrescence | blackness; dark colouring or pigmentation. |
| nigricant | of a blackish colour. |
| nigrify | to blacken. |
| nigrosin nigrosine | a blackish coal-tar colour dye. |
| noncolor | something that is not a colour. |
| noncolored noncolored | not coloured. |
| nongreen | not green. |
| nutbrown | having the colour of a nut. |
| oaker | ochre. |
| ocher ochre | a native pigment composed of fine earth and an iron oxide; (verb) to colour with ochre. |
| ocherous ochrous ochraceous ochreous ochroid ochry ochery ochrey ocherish | containing or resembling OCHRE. |
| ochroleucous | yellowish white. |
| olivaceous | olive-coloured. |
| orange | ORANGER, ORANGEST. |
| orangey orangy | somewhat ORANGE > ORANGIER, ORANGIEST. |
| orangish | somewhat ORANGE. |
| orcein | a reddish brown amorphous dyestuff, obtained from ORCIN and forming the essential coloring matter of CUDBEAR and ARCHIL. It is closely related to litmus. |
| orchel orchella orchil orseille | a dye obtained from certain lichens. Cf. ARCHIL. |
| orpin | a yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red. |
| outred outredden | to surpass in redness. |
| overdye | to dye with excess of color; to put one color over (another). |
| overred | to smear with red. |
| oxblood | a dark reddish-brown colour. |
| palish | somewhat pale or wan. |
| pallid | pale; wan > PALLIDER, PALLIDEST. |
| pallidity | pallidness; paleness. |
| pallor | paleness e.g. of the complexion. |
| paly | pale in colour > PALIER, PALIEST. |
| particolored particoloured | having many colours. |
| peachblow | a delicate purplish-pink colour, used as a glaze on porcelain. |
| phaeic | dusky. [Gk. phaios, dusky]. |
| philamot philomot | dead-leaf colour; dull brown. Cf. FILEMOT. |
| pigmental | of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments. |
| pink | PINKER, PINKEST; (verb) to prick, wound slightly. |
| pinken | to become pink. |
| pinkiness | the state of being PINKY. |
| pinkish | somewhat pink. |
| pinkly | |
| pinkness | |
| pinky | somewhat pink > PINKIER, PINKIEST; (noun) a little finger. |
| pistache | a shade of green. |
| pleochroic polychroic | displaying different colours when seen from different directions. |
| plumbeous | leaden; lead-coloured. |
| polychrome | many-coloured; (noun) a work of art using lots of colours; (verb) to colour in many colours. |
| ponceau | a poppy-coloured red dye > PONCEAUS or PONCEAUX. |
| porphyrous | purple. |
| porporate | clad in purple. |
| porraceous | leek-green. |
| primrose | pale yellow; (verb) to gather primroses. |
| primuline | a yellow coal-tar dye. |
| prussian | As in prussian blue, ferric ferrocyanide, a colour pigment, discovered in Berlin. |
| puce | brownish-purple; purplish-pink > PUCER, PUCEST. |
| purple | > PURPLE, PURPLEST; (verb) to make purple. |
| purpleness | the state of being PURPLE. |
| purplish | somewhat purple. |
| purply | somewhat purple > PURPLIER, PURPLIEST. |
| purpureal | purple. |
| pyrrhous | reddish; ruddy. |
| raddle reddle ruddle | red ochre; (verb) to redden with this. |
| red | a primary colour > REDDER, REDDEST; (verb) to tidy up, also REDD. |
| redden | to make red |
| reddish | |
| reddishly | rEDDISH, somewhat red. |
| reddy | reddish > REDDIER, REDDIEST. |
| redness | |
| redye | to dye again. |
| regreen | to make green again. |
| rosanilin | a reddish-brown derivative of ANILIN used as a dye. |
| rose | (verb) to redden. |
| rosiness | |
| rosy | rose-coloured > ROSIER, ROSIEST; (verb) to redden. |
| roucou | a bright orange colouring matter, aka ANNATTO. [Fr. ro(u)cou f. Galibi rucu var. of Tupi urucú]. |
| rubefy rubify | to redden. |
| rubescent | growing red; blushing. |
| rubicund | inclining to redness; ruddy; red. |
| rubiginose rubiginous | rust-coloured. |
| rubineous | ruby-red. |
| rubious | ruby red; rusty. |
| ruby | red like a ruby > RUBIER, RUBIEST; (verb) to redden. |
| rud | redness of complexion; (verb) to redden > RUDDED, RUDDING. |
| ruddily | |
| ruddiness | |
| ruddy | reddish > RUDDIER, RUDDIEST; to redden. |
| rufescence | the state of being RUFESCENT, inclined to redness. |
| rufescent | inclining to redness. |
| rufous | reddish or brownish-red > RUFOUSES. |
| russet | reddish brown; (verb) to make or become russet in colour. |
| russety | of a russet color > RUSSETIER, RUSSETIEST. |
| sable | black > SABLER, SABLEST. |
| saffrony | having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish. |
| safranin safranine | the yellow colouring matter in saffron; a coal tar derivative which dyes yellowish red. |
| sallow | of an unhealthy pale or yellowish colour > SALLOWER, SALLOWEST; (verb) to make sallow. |
| sallowish | somewhat sallow. |
| sallowy | somewhat sallow > SALLOWIER, SALLOWIEST. |
| sallowly | |
| sapphired | coloured with sapphire blue. |
| saxe | as in saxe blue, a light bluish-grey colour. |
| scarlet | (verb) to redden > SCARLETED, SCARLETING. |
| sepia | a brown pigment, obtained from the ink of the cuttlefish. |
| sepic | of or pertaining to SEPIA; done in sepia; as, a sepic drawing. |
| sienna | a fine pigment made from ferruginous ochreous earth, browny-yellow when raw, reddish-brown when burnt. [From the town of Siena]. |
| silvery | like silver > SILVERIER, SILVERIEST. |
| smalt | a deep-blue pigment. |
| smaragdine | emerald green. |
| soare sore | sorrel, reddish brown. |
| solferino | a moderate purplish-red (after the town of Solferino) > SOLFERINOS. |
| sorel sorell sorrel | (of) a reddish-brown or light chestnut colour. |
| spadiceous | chestnut-coloured. |
| subfusc subfusk subfuscous | duskish; moderately dark; brownish; tawny. |
| swart | black, dusky. |
| swarthily | sWARTHY, dark-complexioned, blackish. |
| swarthy | black > SWARTHIER, SWARTHIEST. |
| swartness | the quality or state of being SWART. |
| swarty | swarthy; tawny > SWARTIER, SWARTIEST |
| tan | of a brown colour > TANNER, TANNEST; (verb) TANS, TANNING, TANNED. |
| tannish | somewhat tan. |
| taupe | a brownish-gray to dark yellowish-brown colour. |
| tawnily | |
| tawniness | the quality or state of being tawny. |
| tawny | yellowish-brown > TAWNIER, TAWNIEST |
| thionin thionine | a violet dye. |
| tinct | to stain, dye. |
| tinctorial | of or relating to dyeing; giving colour. |
| tincture | a colouring matter, a dye, a pigment; spec. one used as a cosmetic; (verb) to colour with a tincture. |
| tinter | a person or thing that tints. |
| tintiness | the state of being tinted. |
| tintless | without tint. |
| tinty | unevenly tinted > TINTIER, TINTIEST. |
| titian | red-gold or reddish-brown; (noun) this colour. |
| tricolour tricolor | having three colours; (noun) a flag of three colours; esp. the French national flag of blue, white, and red vertical stripes. |
| tropeolin | a type of dye. |
| trypan | as in trypan dye, a blue dye obtained from tolidine. |
| turacin | a red or crimson pigment obtained from certain feathers of several species of TURACOU; whence the name. |
| ultramarine | beyond the sea; (of) greenish- blue color or pigment. |
| umber | brownish red; (verb) to colour brownish red. |
| umbery | of or pertaining to umber; like umber; as, umbery gold > UMBERIER, UMBERIEST. |
| uncolored | not colored. |
| undertint | a tint underlying another tint. |
| ungreen | not green > UNGREENER, UNGREENEST. |
| unicolor unicolour | having one colour |
| unicolored | having one colour |
| unpigmented | not pigmented. |
| unwhite | not white. |
| varicolored | of different colours. |
| verdancy | the quality of being verdant. |
| verdant | green, esp. of growth. |
| verdure | greenness; health and vigour. |
| verdured | clad with VERDURE, greenness. |
| vermeil | bright red; scarlet; vermilion; (verb) to make crimson > VERMEILED/VERMEILLED. Cf. VERMIL, VERMEILLE. |
| vermeille | bright red; scarlet; vermilion; (verb) to make crimson. Cf. VERMIL, VERMEIL. |
| vermell | = VERMEIL, bright red. |
| vermil | bright red; scarlet; vermilion; (verb) to make crimson > VERMILLED/VERMILLING. Cf. VERMEIL, VERMEILLE. |
| vermilion | bright red; (verb) to make vermilion. |
| vermillion | bright red. |
| vermily | vermilion. Cf. VERMIL, VERMELL. |
| versicolor versicolour | of variable or various colours. Also VERSICOLOR. |
| vinaceous | of the colour of wine, dark-red. Used esp. for the unique dark-red coloring of some birds, like the vinaceous amazon or vinaceous rosefinch. |
| virent | green; not withered. |
| virescent | becoming or slightly green. |
| virid | bright green. |
| viridian | chrome green. |
| viridity | greenness; freshness. |
| wan | of a pale colour > WANNER, WANNEST; (verb) to make wan > WANS, WANNING, WANNED. |
| wanness | the quality or state of being wan. |
| wannish | somewhat wan; of a pale hue. |
| wheaten | the golden colour of ripe wheat. |
| white | WHITER, WHITEST; (verb) to make white. |
| whitely | |
| whiteness | |
| whitish | somewhat white. |
| whity | whiteish > WHITIER, WHITIEST; (noun) a white person. Also WHITEY. |
| willowish | of the colour of willow leaves. |
| woaded | colored or stained with woad. |
| woald | a yellow pigment. |
| woodtone | a colour matching that of wood > WOODTONES. |
| xanthein | a soluble yellow colouring matter present in flowers. |
| xanthic | yellow; yellowish. |
| xanthous | yellow- or red-haired; yellow-skinned. |
| yellow | YELLOWER, YELLOWEST; (verb) to make yellow |
| yellowish | |
| yellowly | |
| yellowy | somewhat yellow > YELLOWIER, YELLOWIEST. |
| zaffar zaffer zaffir zaffre | a blue ceramic colouring. |