Coloring

Verb
coloring



Noun

 * 1) An act or process which applies color.
 * 2) The appearance as to color.
 * 3) A disguise or discoloration.

Adjectives for Coloring
illusive; youthful; fanciful; mustard; vivid; admirable; tender; somber; warm; luxurious; genuine; motley; special; clear; mellow; rich; artificial; musical; radiant; gorgeous; deep; lustrous; neutral; delightful; flawless; appropriate.

Verbs for Coloring
corral—; curb—; groom—; exercise—; loose—; mount—; stable—; —balks; — frisks; —gallops off; —grazes; —hurdles; —neighs; —pastures.

Related terms

 * colorable
 * coloration
 * colored
 * color guard
 * colorless
 * color line

Thesaurus
coating, cold, color, color balance, color filter, color gelatin, color harmony, color printing, color scheme, colorant, coloration, colorific, coloring, complexion, confabulation, connotation, consequence, cool, crimsoning, dead-color, deception, decorator color, deformation, delusion, denotation, dichromatic, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, distemper, distortion, drier, drift, dye, dyeing, dyestuff, effect, embellishment, emblazonry, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting, equivocation, erubescent, essence, exaggeration, expressionism, extension, exterior paint, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air, false coloring, false front, false show, false swearing, falsification, falsifying, falsity, feigning, feint, finger painting, flat coat, flat wash, floor enamel, flower painting, flush, flushing, force, four-flushing, fraud, fresco painting, front, garbling, genre painting, gilt, gist, gloss, glow, glowing, gouache, grammatical meaning, grisaille, ground, guise, harmonious, hectic, hectic flush, hue, humbug, humbuggery, hyperbole, idea, illumination, illustration, impact, impasto, implication, import, imposture, inaccuracy, injustice, intension, interior paint, key, lexical meaning, literal meaning, lithography, litotes, mantling, many-colored, masquerade, matching, meaning, medium, medley, meretriciousness, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdrawing, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, mural painting, natural color, nonrealism, oil painting, opaque color, ostentation, outward show, overdrawing, overstatement, overtone, paint, painting, pallor, parti-colored, perjury, pertinence, perversion, picturization, pigment, pigmentary, pigmentation, pith, playacting, point, polychromatic, portraiture, pose, posing, poster painting, posture, practical consequence, pretense, pretension, pretext, prevarication, prime coat, primer, priming, prismatic, pudency, pudicity, purport, put-on, rainbow, range of meaning, real meaning, reddening, reference, referent, relation, relevance, representation, rubefacient, rubescence, rubescent, rubificative, rufescence, scope, seeming, semantic cluster, semantic field, semblance, sense, shade, sham, show, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, simulacrum, simulation, skin color, slanting, span of meaning, speciousness, spectral, spirit, stain, staining, straining, structural meaning, substance, suffusion, sum, sum and substance, symbolic meaning, tempera, tenor, the brush, thinner, timbre, tinct, tinction, tinctorial, tincture, tinge, tingent, tinging, tint, tinting, tonality, tone, tone color, tone quality, toning, totality of associations, transferred meaning, transparent color, turpentine, turps, twisting, unadorned meaning, undercoat, undercoating, undercolor, understatement, undertone, value, variegated, varnish, vehicle, warm, wash, wash coat, wash drawing, window dressing

Alternative forms

 * (mainly British:) colouring

Translations

 * Finnish: väritys, värittäminen


 * Finnish: väritys


 * Finnish: suojaväritys (disguise), värin muuttuminen (discoloration)