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COLORIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does colorist mean?
• COLORIST (noun)
The noun COLORIST has 1 sense:
1. a painter able to achieve special effects with color
Familiarity information: COLORIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A painter able to achieve special effects with color
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("colorist" is a kind of...):
painter (an artist who paints)
Derivation:
color (the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation)
color (a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect)
color (any material used for its color)
color (decorate with colors)
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