Definition of monochrome
: a painting, drawing, or photograph in a single hue
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This one, originally based on Eddie Huang’s memoir of the same name, centers on a Chinese-American family adjusting to a move from Washington, DC, to a far more monochrome Florida suburb.
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Reach for matching sets with a nautical slant, micro prints and metallic footwear over monochrome.
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Deadpool was originally created as an antagonist of the X-Force, and didn’t officially become a member until decades later with a new iteration of the team and a new costume – a monochrome number that’s teased in the trailer.
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The error was widely recognized by the eighteenth century, but the rule of chaste monochrome persisted well into modern times, even as modernism suppressed figurative imagery.
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Haines embellished his sofas with monochrome trapunto, an Italian padded quilting technique, topped with pale-blue flatwork embroidery.
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His electric green pants and tangerine helmet stand out against winter’s monochrome.
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In memory of Catherine, the design house adopted the butterfly as its the emblem, and a set of delicate monochrome butterflies decorate the bodice of a crepe dress.
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DeLap’s paintings are mostly monochrome, but not gesturally so.
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Origin and Etymology of monochrome
Medieval Latin monochroma, from Latin, feminine of monochromos of one color, from Greek monochrōmos, from mon- + -chrōmos -chrome
Definition of monochrome
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: of, relating to, or made with a single color or hue
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: involving or producing visual images in a single color or in varying tones of a single color (such as gray)
- monochrome film
Examples of monochrome in a Sentence
an artist who produces monochrome pencil drawings
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The first was a sunny, monochrome look from Brandon Maxwell's Spring 2018 collection, which just hit the runway at New York Fashion Week last month.
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Beyond its history, Malta's landscape offers a natural, if hauntingly monochrome beauty amid the brilliant blues of the surrounding sea and sky.
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Fortunately, state legislatures, alumni and philanthropists are planting little academic platoons that will make campuses less intellectually monochrome.
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Fortunately, state legislatures, alumni and philanthropists are planting little academic platoons that will make campuses less intellectually monochrome.
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Fortunately, state legislatures, alumni and philanthropists are planting little academic platoons that will make campuses less intellectually monochrome.
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Fortunately, state legislatures, alumni and philanthropists are planting little academic platoons that will make campuses less intellectually monochrome.
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First Known Use of monochrome
1839
monochrome Synonyms
Synonyms
Antonyms
chromatic, colorful, kaleidoscopic, motley, multicolored, polychromatic, polychrome, rainbow, varicolored, varied, variegated;
Near Antonyms
dappled (also dapple), marbled, shaded;
mottled, parti-color (or parti-colored), piebald, pied, pinto, skewbald;
banded, barred, brindled (or brindle), streaked, striated;
checkered, dotted, patterned, plaid, striped;
flecked, specked, speckled, spotted;
bicolored (or bicolor), dichromatic, two-tone;
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MONOCHROME Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of monochrome for English Language Learners
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: having or made up of one color or shades of one color
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: using or showing only black and white and shades of gray
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