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achromatic color

DEFINITIONS OF: achromatic color

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n a color lacking hue; white or grey or black

Synonyms:
achromatic colour
Antonyms:
chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
a color that has hue
Types:
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black, blackness, inkiness
the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
white, whiteness
the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
gray, grayness, grey, greyness
a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black
a very dark black
alabaster
a very light white
bleach
the whiteness that results from removing the color from something
bone, ivory, off-white, pearl
a shade of white the color of bleached bones
chalk
a pure flat white with little reflectance
frostiness, hoariness
a silvery-white color
ash gray, ash grey, silver, silver gray, silver grey
a light shade of grey
charcoal, charcoal gray, charcoal grey, oxford gray, oxford grey
a very dark grey color
dapple-gray, dapple-grey, dappled-gray, dappled-grey
grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings
iron-gray, iron-grey
the color of freshly broken cast iron
tattletale gray, tattletale grey
a greyish white
Davy's gray, Davy's grey, iron blue, steel gray, steel grey
slightly purplish or bluish dark grey
Type of:
color, coloring, colour, colouring
a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
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