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SPECTRAL COLOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A color that has hue
Synonyms:
chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("spectral color" is a kind of...):
color; coloring; colour; colouring (a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect)
Meronyms (substance of "spectral color"):
chroma; intensity; saturation; vividness (chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spectral color"):
red; redness (red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood)
orange; orangeness (orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow)
salmon (a pale pinkish orange color)
yellow; yellowness (yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons)
blond; blonde (a light grayish yellow to near white)
green; greenness; viridity (green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass)
blue; blueness (blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime)
purple; purpleness (a purple color or pigment)
pink (a light shade of red)
brown; brownness (an orange of low brightness and saturation)
olive (a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation)
pastel (any of various pale or light colors)
complementary; complementary color (either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments))
