8.3.3.3 Color

Use this domain for words related to color.

Louw Nida Codes: 
79G Color
  • What words refer to color?
    color, shade, tint, hue, coloring, pigment, tincture, cast, palette, coloration, complexion, chroma, chromatic, tone,
  • What words indicate that something is a particular color?
    be red/green, be a red/reddish color, colored, tinted,
  • What words describe something that is a dark color?
    dark, deep, rich,
  • What words describe something that is a light color?
    light (adj), pale, pastel, faint, livid, lurid, pallid, pallor, pale-faced, neutral tint,
  • What words describe something that is a bright color?
    bright, brightly colored, brilliant, pure, gaudy, garish, vivid, flashy, fresh, intense, strong, hot,
  • What words describe something that is a dull color?
    dull, faded, washed out, drab, dingy, flushed, clouded, grayish, somber,
  • What words describe something, such as a photograph, that has been made with color?
    color (photograph), in color,
  • What words describe something that has no color or is black and white?
    colorless, black and white, uncolored, monochrome, achromatic, ghostly, glassy, lackluster, undyed,
  • What words refer to the intensity of a color?
    value, intensity, saturation,
  • What words refer to pure or mixed colors?
    pure, mixed, tinge, primary color, secondary color, tertiary color,
  • What words describe colors that look good together?
    go together, go with, suit you, color scheme, complimentary,
  • What words describe colors that do not look good together?
    clash,
  • What words describe someone who cannot see color?
    color-blind
  • What words refer to a color or pattern of colors used by a group of people to identify themselves?
    livery, tartan, team colors,

    • 8.3.3.3.1 White

    Use this domain for words describing something that is white.

  • What words describe something that is white in color?
    white, alabaster, albino, bleached, chalky, cream, cream-colored, creamy, eggshell, fair, ivory, lily-white, milk-white, milky, off-white, oyster white, pearl, pearly, snowy, snow-white,

    • 8.3.3.3.2 Black

    Use this domain for words describing something that is black.

  • What words describe something that is black in color?
    black, pitch black, jet-black, inky black, ebony black, black as coal, coal-black, black as pitch, black as night, night-black, henna, negro, raven,

    • 8.3.3.3.3 Gray

    Use this domain for words describing something that is gray.

  • What words describe something that is gray in color?
    gray, ashen, charcoal gray, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, hoar, hoary, leaden, mouse-colored, mousy, muddy, slate-gray, smoky, sooty, steel-gray,

    • 8.3.3.3.4 Colors of the spectrum

    Use this domain for words describing something that is colored.

  • What words refer to all the colors arranged in the spectrum of the rainbow?
    spectrum, rainbow, prism, spectral,
  • What words describe a kind of color?
    primary color, secondary color, earth color, warm color, cool color, infrared,
  • What are the shades of red?
    red, beet-red, blood-red, blush, brick-red, cardinal, carmine, carnelian, cherry, Chinese red, claret, coral, crimson, fiery, fire-red, flame-colored, incarnadine, lobster, lobster-colored, madder, pink, puce, roan, rose, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, rouge, ruby-red, ruddy, scarlet, vermilion, wine,
  • What are the shades of orange?
    orange, apricot, cadmium, carrottop, carroty, ocher, peach, salmon, tangerine,
  • What are the shades of yellow?
    yellow, amber, banana, blond, blonde, canary, chartreuse, chrome yellow, citron, cream, flaxen, gold, golden, goldilocks, jaundice, lemon, saffron, sallow, straw-colored, sulfur, tawny, terra cotta, yellow ocher, xanthous,
  • What are the shades of green?
    green, greenish, apple-green, bottle-green, chlorine, emerald, grass, grass-green, khaki, leaf-green, leek-green, lime-green, olive, pea, pea-green, peacock, sap green, sea-green, topaz, verdant, viridian,
  • What are the shades of blue?
    blue, azure, baby-blue, beryl-blue, carbuncle, cerulean, cobalt, cyan, cyanic, indigo, lapis lazuli, navy blue, Prussian blue, royal blue, sapphire, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine,
  • What are the shades of purple?
    purple, violet, amethyst, crocus, hyacinth, lavender, lilac, liver-colored, magenta, maroon, mauve, mulberry, plum, plum-colored, royal purple,
  • What are the shades of brown?
    brown, tan, beige, flesh colored, auburn, brunette, buff, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, coffee, dun, fawn, foxy, hazel, khaki, mahogany, ocher, russet, rust, sepia, sienna, sorrel, umber, walnut,
  • What words describe something that looks like metal?
    metallic, copper, brass, bronze, bronzed, gilded, gilt, gold, golden, platinum, silver, silvery, steely,

    • 8.3.3.3.5 Animal color, marking

    Use this domain for words related to animal colors and markings.

    Related domains: 
    1.6 Animal
  • What words are used to describe the coloring of an animal?
    russet, bay, palomino, sable, tortoise-shell,
  • What words are used to describe the markings on an animal?
    spotted, striped, camouflaged, flecked, speckled, piebald, dappled, star, blaze, brindled, calico, tabby, pinto,

    • 8.3.3.3.6 Change color

    Use this domain for words related to changing the color of something.

  • What words refer to changing the color of something?
    color (v), color something in, blacken, bleach, denigrate, dye, discolor, emblazon, imbue, ingrain, paint (v), redden, shade (v), stain, tinge, tint, add color, mix colors, tone down, whiten,
  • What words are used of something changing color?
    change color, lose its color, blush, turn pale, pale, blanch,
  • What words refer to dye being washed out of cloth?
    wash out, run,
  • What words refer to the sun changing the color of something?
    fade, bleach,
  • What words describe something whose color has changed?
    colored, discolored, bleached, dyed, faded, mantled, painted, shaded, stained, tinged, tinted,
  • What words refer to things used to change the color of something?
    paint (n), dye (n), bleach (n), food coloring, stain (n),
  • What words describe a color that does not change?
    fast,

    • 8.3.3.3.7 Multicolored

    Use this domain for words describing something that is multicolored--having many different colors.

  • What words describe something that has many different colors?
    colorful, multicolored, gaudy, garish, harlequin, multihued, many-colored, many-hued, brightly colored, variegated, polychrome, polychromatic, kaleidoscope, kaleidoscopic, play of colors, motley, pepper-and-salt, grizzled, mosaic,
  • What words describe something that is colored with lines?
    lined, striped, streaked, checkered, plaid, tartan, checked, marbled, banded, barred, cross-striped, damask,
  • What words describe something that is colored with spots?
    spotted, speckled, dotted, blotchy, dappled, mealy, mottled, pied, spotty,
  • What words describe something that is colored like a rainbow?
    rainbow-hued, iridescence, iridescent, prismatic, opalescence, opalescent, pearly,