colour British English spelling




colour - noun

  • any material used for its color
  • a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
  • (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
  • interest and variety and intensity
  • the timbre of a musical sound
  • a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
  • an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
  • the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation

    • colour - verb

    • modify or bias
    • decorate with colors
    • give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
    • affect as in thought or feeling
    • add color to
    • change color, often in an undesired manner

    colour - adjective

    • having or capable of producing colors

    colour - thesaurus

    color American English spelling   coloration   coloring American English spelling   colorise   colorize American English spelling but is sometimes accepted as British spelling   colouration   colouring British English spelling   colourise   colourize British English spelling but is sometimes accepted as American spelling   discolor American English spelling   discolour British English spelling   distort   emblazon   gloss   semblance   tinge   vividness  

    Scrabble score for colour

    c is 3 o is 1 l is 1 o is 1 u is 1 r is 1
    Scrabble score = 8

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