colour

colour is a 6-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Color. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. See Color.
2. noun. the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation

   Synonyms: color

3. noun. an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading

   "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"

   "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"

   Synonyms: color, gloss, semblance

4. noun. a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect

   "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"

   Synonyms: color, coloring, colouring

5. noun. the timbre of a musical sound

   "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"

   Synonyms: color, coloration, colouration

6. noun. interest and variety and intensity

   "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"

   "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"

   Synonyms: color, vividness

7. noun. (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction

   "each flavor of quarks comes in three colors"

   Synonyms: color

8. noun. a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)

   Synonyms: color

9. noun. any material used for its color

   "she used a different color for the trim"

   Synonyms: color

10. verb. change color, often in an undesired manner

    "The shirts discolored"

    Synonyms: color, discolor, discolour

11. verb. add color to

    "The child colored the drawings"

    "Fall colored the trees"

    Synonyms: color, colorise, colorize, colourise, colourize

12. verb. affect as in thought or feeling

    "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"

    "The sadness tinged his life"

    Synonyms: color, distort, tinge

13. verb. give a deceptive explanation or excuse for

    "color a lie"

    Synonyms: color, gloss

14. verb. decorate with colors

    "color the walls with paint in warm tones"

    Synonyms: color, emblazon

15. verb. modify or bias

    "His political ideas color his lectures"

    Synonyms: color

16. adjective. having or capable of producing colors

    "color film"

    "he rented a color television"

    Synonyms: color

Synonyms

color, gloss, semblance, coloring, colouring, coloration, colouration, vividness, discolor, discolour, colorise, colorize, colourise, colourize, distort, tinge, emblazon

Common word forms

colours, coloured, colourer, colourful, colouring, colourise, colourize, colourable, colourless

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for COLOUR lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.