English > neutral: 8 senses > adjective 5| Meaning | Having no hue. |
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| Example | "neutral colors like black or white" |
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| Synonym | achromatic |
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| Attribute of | hue, chromaticity | The quality of a color / color as determined by its dominant wavelength |
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| Narrower | argent, silver, silvery, silverish | Of lustrous grey |
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| ash-grey, ash-gray, ashy | Of a light grey |
| black-grey, black-gray, blackish-grey, blackish-gray | Of dark grey |
| blackish | Of something that is somewhat black |
| blue-black, bluish black | Of black tinged with blue |
| blue-grey, blue-gray, bluish-grey, bluish-gray | Of grey tinged with blue |
| blue-white, bluish-white, cool-white | Of white tinged with blue |
| brown-black, brownish-black | Of black tinged with brown |
| brown-grey, brown-gray, brownish-grey, brownish-gray | Of grey tinged with brown |
| canescent | Of greyish white |
| chalky | Of something having the color of chalk |
| charcoal, charcoal-grey, charcoal-gray | Of a very dark grey |
| coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy, sooty | Of the blackest black |
| cottony-white | Of something as white as cotton |
| dull-white | Of a dull shade of white |
| ebon, ebony | Of a very dark black |
| green-white, greenish-white | Of white flowers tinged with green |
| greenish-grey, greenish-gray | Of grey tinged with green |
| grey, gray, greyish, grayish | Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black |
| grey-black, gray-black, greyish-black, grayish-black | Of black tinged with grey |
| grey-white, gray-white, greyish-white, grayish-white | Of white tinged with grey |
| hueless | Of something totally lacking in saturation and therefore / therefore having no hue |
| ink-black, inky, inky-black | Of the color of black ink |
| iron-grey, iron-gray | Of the grey color of iron |
| lily-white | Of a pure white color |
| milk-white | Of a white the color of fresh milk |
| olive-grey, olive-gray | Of grey tinged with olive |
| oxford-grey, oxford-gray, dark-grey, dark-gray | Of a dark shade of grey |
| pearl grey, pearl gray | Of a grey with a pearly tinge |
| pearly, pearly-white | Of a white the color of pearls |
| pinkish-white | Of white tinged with pink |
| purple-black, purplish-black | Of black tinged with purple |
| purple-white, purplish-white | Of white tinged with purple |
| red-grey, red-gray, reddish-grey, reddish-gray | Of grey tinged with red |
| sable | Of a dark somewhat brownish black |
| silver-grey, silver-gray, silvery-grey, silvery-gray | Of grey resembling silver |
| silver-white, silvery-white | Of a white that resembles silver |
| slate-black | Of a black tinged with slate-grey |
| slate-grey, slate-gray, slaty-grey, slaty-gray, slaty, slatey, stone-grey, stone-gray | Of the color of slate or granite |
| snow-white, snowy | Of the white color of snow |
| soot-black, sooty-black | Of the black color of soot |
| violet-black | Of black tinged with violet |
| white-flowered | (of plants) having white flowers |
| whitish, off-white | Of something having a color tending toward white |
| yellow-grey, yellow-gray, yellowish-grey, yellowish-gray | Of grey tinged with yellow |
| yellow-white, yellowish-white | Of a white tinged with yellow |
| See also | colorless, colourless | Weak in color |
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| uncolored, uncoloured | Without color |
| Opposite | chromatic | Being or having or characterized by hue |
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| Spanish | acromático, neutro |
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| Catalan | acromàtic |
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