ACHROMATIC COLOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does achromatic color mean? 

• ACHROMATIC COLOR (noun)
  The noun ACHROMATIC COLOR has 1 sense:

1. a color lacking hue; white or grey or black

  Familiarity information: ACHROMATIC COLOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACHROMATIC COLOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A color lacking hue; white or grey or black

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

achromatic color; achromatic colour

Hypernyms ("achromatic 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)

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

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)

Antonym:

chromatic color (a color that has hue)

 Context examples 

An achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white.

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