colouring

Speech parts

1. colouring - Noun

2. colouring - Adjective

3. colouring - Verb

Meaning

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

the act or process of changing the color of something

a digestible substance used to give color to food

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

color colour coloring food colouring food coloring food color food colour wash albumin dye hue cast painting tone paint
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Antonyms

dirtying paling damaging devastating peroxide draining
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Hypernyms

foodstuff food product change of color visual property

Hyponyms

heather tone shade coloration dyeing complexion

Phrases with the word

colouring up colouring agent colouring materials skin colouring map with colouring azo colouring agent

Examples

...he had to admit to a faint admiration (faint as angostura colouring gin and water) Anthony Burgess

We received our colouring from the Norsemen, hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees. We are the ones who sacked Rome. Fear only feeble old age and death in bed. Don't forget who you are. Janet Fitch

I usually have a lip balm in my bag and mascara as well. I don't really wear much make-up, but I like mascara because I've got fair colouring. Lily Cole

Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera. Robert Carlyle

Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, ‘I love you' but it means nothing more to him than if he said, ‘I'll have a cup of coffee. Robert D. Hare

The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. William Wordsworth

Close letter words and terms

colourimetrical colourimetrically colourimetry colouring agent colouring book colouring material