coloristic

adjective

col·​or·​is·​tic ˌkə-lə-ˈri-stik How to pronounce coloristic (audio)
1
: of or relating to color or coloring
2
: of or relating to timbre in music
coloristically adverb

Examples of coloristic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web And then, again, below this middle stratum, more bare canvas flecked by a few further coloristic footnotes. Barry Schwabsky, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2024 Orchestral writing in Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn) is a marvel of textural and coloristic effects, and two of the songs were repurposed in Mahler’s Second Symphony. Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023 For her part Skride conveyed the music with a crisp technique and moments of conviction, but her playing never really caught fire and overall had little of the coloristic variety or expressive depth required to truly lift this performance onto a higher interpretive plane. Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023 This is crucial to the dark magic of race-making: those interested in the architecture of exclusion—and, ultimately, in the atmosphere of death that such exclusion takes as its necessary tribute—are always finding new specifics, phrenological or coloristic, on which to hang their terrible claims. Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022 See all Example Sentences for coloristic 

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Word History

Etymology

color entry 1 + -istic

First Known Use

1883, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of coloristic was in 1883

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Cite this Entry

“Coloristic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coloristic. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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