color

color

verb

Definition of COLOR

1

to give color or a different color to <she's colored her hair for so long and so often that no one knows what her natural color is>

Synonyms bepaint [archaic], dye, paint, pigment, stain, tincture, tinge, tint

Related Words brighten, lighten; darken, embrown, tone (down); checker, dapple, daub, fleck, marble, mottle, pattern, polychrome, speck, speckle, streak, striate, stripe, variegate

Near Antonyms blanch, bleach, whiten

Antonyms decolorize

2

to add to the interest of by including made-up details <he gave a highly colored version of a rather mundane experience>

Synonyms color, elaborate (on), embellish, exaggerate, hyperbolize, magnify, pad, stretch

Related Words dress up, gussy up; amplify, enhance, enlarge (on or upon), expand, flesh (out); fudge, hedge; overdo, overdraw, overemphasize, overplay, overstate; emphasize, play up, stress; caricature; satirize

Near Antonyms belittle, minimize, play down, understate

3

to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of <his news reporting is colored by his prejudices>

Synonyms bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist, warp

Related Words misdescribe, misspeak, mistranslate; belie, camouflage, disguise, dissemble, gloss (over), mask, veil, whitewash; bowdlerize, censor; complicate, confound, confuse, mistake, mix (up); mystify, obscure; equivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate

Near Antonyms clarify, clear (up), explain, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, spell out; decipher

4

to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment) <she colored after hearing the nasty remarks about her weight>

Synonyms bloom, color, crimson, flush, glow, redden

Related Words incarnadine, rouge, ruddle; abash, chagrin, discomfit, disconcert, embarrass, faze, humiliate, mortify