pigment

pigment is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.
2. noun. Any one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.
3. noun. Wine flavored with species and honey.
4. noun. a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating

   "artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably"

   Synonyms: paint

5. noun. dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
6. noun. any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
7. verb. color or dye with a pigment

   "pigment a photograph"

8. verb. acquire pigment; become colored or imbued

Synonyms

paint

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pigment:

temping

Common word forms

pigments, pigmental, pigmented, pigmenting, pigmentize

Words from these letters

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