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ACHROMATIC COLOUR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A color lacking hue; white or grey or black
Synonyms:
achromatic color; achromatic colour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("achromatic colour" is a kind of...):
color; coloring; colour; colouring (a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "achromatic colour"):
black; blackness; inkiness (the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white))
white; whiteness (the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black))
gray; grayness; grey; greyness (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)
