Post by Shados on Jan 3, 2006 21:42:59 GMT -5
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Color
hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush; tone, key. pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive complementary color; three primaries; spectrum, chromatic dispersion; broken color, secondary color, tertiary color. local color, coloring, keeping, tone, value, aerial perspective. chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy; chromatism, chromatography||, chromatology; prism, spectroscope. pigment, coloring matter, paint, wash, distemper, stain; medium; mordant; oil paint, dye, tinge, stain, tint, tinct, paint, wash, ingrain, grain, illuminate, emblazon, bedizen, imbue; 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.
White
argent. albification, etiolation; lactescence. snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster; albata, eburin, German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white; white lead, carbonate of lead. whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver. milk-white, snow-white; snowy; niveous, candid, chalky; hoar, hoary; silvery; argent, argentine; canescent, cretaceous, lactescent. whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond; blanched, high in tone, light. white as snow, white as a lily, poreclain and moon washed/ kissed
Black
blackness; darkness. swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, chiaroscuro, infuscation. jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow. blackamoor, darkie, Ethiop, black; buck, lampblak, ivory black, blueblack; writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink. blacken, infuscate, denigrate; blot, blotch; smutch; smirch; darken. sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebon, atramentous, jetty; coal-black, jet-black; pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, low-toned, low in tone; of the deepest dye. black as jet, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight; nocturnal
Gray
neutral tint, silver, pepper and salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille. iron-gray, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber, sad, pearly, calcareous, favillous; silver, silvery, silvered; ashen, ashy; cinereous, cineritious; grizzly, grizzled; slate- colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored; cool.
Brown
bister, ocher, sepia, tan, embrown, bronze. bay, auburn, castaneous, chestnut, nut-brown, cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous, chocolate, maroon, foxy, tan, brunette, whitey brown; fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-colored; brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves; khaki. sun-burnt; tanned
Red
scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose, magenta, damask, purple; flesh tint; color; fresh color, high color; warmth; ruby, carbuncle; rose; rust, iron mold. cinnabar, cochineal; fuchsine; ruddle, madder; light red, red ink, annotto; annatto, realgar, minium, red lead. redness, rubescence, rubicundity, rubification; erubescence, blush. flush, mantle, redden. rouge; rubify, rubricate; incarnadine.; ruddle. reddish; rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine, sanguine; rosy, roseate; blowzy, blowed; burnt; rubicund, rubiform; lurid, stammell blood red; russet buff, murrey, carroty, sorrel, lateritious; rubineous, rubcate, rubricose, rufulous. rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame- colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored, brick-colored, dust-colored. erubescent; red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a lobster; warm, hot; foxy.
Green
vert, mint. emerald, verd antique, verdigris, malachite, beryl, aquamarine; absinthe, terre verte, verditer, verdine. greenness, verdure; viridity, viridescence; verditure. verdant; glaucous, olive; green as grass; verdurous. emerald green, pea green, grass green, apple green, sea green, olive green, bottle green. greenish; virent, virescent.
Yellow
gamboge; cadmium-yellow, chrome-yellow, Indian-yellow king's-yellow, lemonyellow; orpiment, yellow ocher, Claude tint, aureolin; xanthein, xanthin; zaofulvin. crocus, saffron, topaz; xanthite; yolk. jaundice; London fog; yellowness, icterus; xantho-cyanopia, xanthopsia. aureate, golden, flavous, citrine, fallow; fulvous, fulvid; sallow, luteous, tawny, creamy, sandy; xanthic, xanthous; jaundiced- auricomous. gold-colored, citron-colored, saffron-colored, lemon-colored, sulphur- colored, amber-colored, straw-colored, primrose-colored, creamcolored; xanthocarpous, xanthochroid, xanthopous. warm, advancing.
Purple
bishop's purple; aniline dyes, gridelin, amethyst; purpure; heliotrope. lividness, lividity. violet, plum-colored, lavender, lilac, puce, mauve; livid.
Blue
garter-blue; watchett. ultramarine, smalt, cobalt, yanogen; Prussian blue, syenite blue; bice, indigo; zaffer. lapis lazuli, sapphire, turquoise; indicolite. blueness, bluishness; bloom. azure, cerulean; sky-blue, sky-colored sky-dyed; cerulescent; bluish; atmospheric, retiring; cold.
Orange
gold; flame, ocher, cadmium. cardinal bird, cardinal flower, cardinal grosbeak, cardinal lobelia. warm. ochreous; orange-colored, gold-colored, flame-colored, copper-colored, brass-colored, apricot-colored; hot, glowing.
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Color
hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush; tone, key. pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive complementary color; three primaries; spectrum, chromatic dispersion; broken color, secondary color, tertiary color. local color, coloring, keeping, tone, value, aerial perspective. chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy; chromatism, chromatography||, chromatology; prism, spectroscope. pigment, coloring matter, paint, wash, distemper, stain; medium; mordant; oil paint, dye, tinge, stain, tint, tinct, paint, wash, ingrain, grain, illuminate, emblazon, bedizen, imbue; 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.
White
argent. albification, etiolation; lactescence. snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster; albata, eburin, German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white; white lead, carbonate of lead. whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver. milk-white, snow-white; snowy; niveous, candid, chalky; hoar, hoary; silvery; argent, argentine; canescent, cretaceous, lactescent. whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond; blanched, high in tone, light. white as snow, white as a lily, poreclain and moon washed/ kissed
Black
blackness; darkness. swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, chiaroscuro, infuscation. jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow. blackamoor, darkie, Ethiop, black; buck, lampblak, ivory black, blueblack; writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink. blacken, infuscate, denigrate; blot, blotch; smutch; smirch; darken. sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebon, atramentous, jetty; coal-black, jet-black; pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, low-toned, low in tone; of the deepest dye. black as jet, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight; nocturnal
Gray
neutral tint, silver, pepper and salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille. iron-gray, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber, sad, pearly, calcareous, favillous; silver, silvery, silvered; ashen, ashy; cinereous, cineritious; grizzly, grizzled; slate- colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored; cool.
Brown
bister, ocher, sepia, tan, embrown, bronze. bay, auburn, castaneous, chestnut, nut-brown, cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous, chocolate, maroon, foxy, tan, brunette, whitey brown; fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-colored; brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves; khaki. sun-burnt; tanned
Red
scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose, magenta, damask, purple; flesh tint; color; fresh color, high color; warmth; ruby, carbuncle; rose; rust, iron mold. cinnabar, cochineal; fuchsine; ruddle, madder; light red, red ink, annotto; annatto, realgar, minium, red lead. redness, rubescence, rubicundity, rubification; erubescence, blush. flush, mantle, redden. rouge; rubify, rubricate; incarnadine.; ruddle. reddish; rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine, sanguine; rosy, roseate; blowzy, blowed; burnt; rubicund, rubiform; lurid, stammell blood red; russet buff, murrey, carroty, sorrel, lateritious; rubineous, rubcate, rubricose, rufulous. rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame- colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored, brick-colored, dust-colored. erubescent; red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a lobster; warm, hot; foxy.
Green
vert, mint. emerald, verd antique, verdigris, malachite, beryl, aquamarine; absinthe, terre verte, verditer, verdine. greenness, verdure; viridity, viridescence; verditure. verdant; glaucous, olive; green as grass; verdurous. emerald green, pea green, grass green, apple green, sea green, olive green, bottle green. greenish; virent, virescent.
Yellow
gamboge; cadmium-yellow, chrome-yellow, Indian-yellow king's-yellow, lemonyellow; orpiment, yellow ocher, Claude tint, aureolin; xanthein, xanthin; zaofulvin. crocus, saffron, topaz; xanthite; yolk. jaundice; London fog; yellowness, icterus; xantho-cyanopia, xanthopsia. aureate, golden, flavous, citrine, fallow; fulvous, fulvid; sallow, luteous, tawny, creamy, sandy; xanthic, xanthous; jaundiced- auricomous. gold-colored, citron-colored, saffron-colored, lemon-colored, sulphur- colored, amber-colored, straw-colored, primrose-colored, creamcolored; xanthocarpous, xanthochroid, xanthopous. warm, advancing.
Purple
bishop's purple; aniline dyes, gridelin, amethyst; purpure; heliotrope. lividness, lividity. violet, plum-colored, lavender, lilac, puce, mauve; livid.
Blue
garter-blue; watchett. ultramarine, smalt, cobalt, yanogen; Prussian blue, syenite blue; bice, indigo; zaffer. lapis lazuli, sapphire, turquoise; indicolite. blueness, bluishness; bloom. azure, cerulean; sky-blue, sky-colored sky-dyed; cerulescent; bluish; atmospheric, retiring; cold.
Orange
gold; flame, ocher, cadmium. cardinal bird, cardinal flower, cardinal grosbeak, cardinal lobelia. warm. ochreous; orange-colored, gold-colored, flame-colored, copper-colored, brass-colored, apricot-colored; hot, glowing.
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