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    SPECTRAL COLOR

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A color that has hueplay

    Synonyms:

    chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("spectral color" is a kind of...):

    color; coloring; colour; colouring (a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect)

    Meronyms (substance of "spectral color"):

    chroma; intensity; saturation; vividness (chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spectral color"):

    red; redness (red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood)

    orange; orangeness (orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow)

    salmon (a pale pinkish orange color)

    yellow; yellowness (yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons)

    blond; blonde (a light grayish yellow to near white)

    green; greenness; viridity (green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass)

    blue; blueness (blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime)

    purple; purpleness (a purple color or pigment)

    pink (a light shade of red)

    brown; brownness (an orange of low brightness and saturation)

    olive (a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation)

    pastel (any of various pale or light colors)

    complementary; complementary color (either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments))

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