Word Meanings - HUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others. (more info) 1. Color or shade of color; tint; dye. "Flowers of all hue." Milton. Hues of the rich unfolding morn. Keble.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HUE)

• Color
• Hue
• tint
• complexion
• pretense
• speciousness
• tinge
• garbling
• falsification
• distortion
• perversion
• varnish
• Complexion
• Face
• aspect
• color
• look
• feature
• appearance
• character
• hue
• interpretation
• indication
• Tint
• dye

Related words: (words related to HUE)

• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• FALSIFICATION
  The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. Story. (more info) 1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. To counterfeit the living image of king in
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• FEATURELESS
  Having no distinct or distinctive features.
• COMPLEXIONALLY
  Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke.
• FEATURE
  fashion, make, fr. L. factura a making, formation, fr. facere, 1. The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature
• PRETENSELESS
  Not having or making pretenses.
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• COLORADOITE
  Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
• PRETENSED
  Pretended; feigned. -- Pre*tens"ed*ly, adv.
• ASPECT RATIO
  The ratio of the long to the short side of an aëroplane, aërocurve, or wing.
• COLOR
  An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. Blackstone. Note: Color is express when it is asverred in the
• COMPLEXIONED
  Having a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark- complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.
• FEATURELY
  Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.
• PERVERSION
  The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use. "Violations and perversions of the laws."
• VARNISHER
  1. One who varnishes; one whose occupation is to varnish. 2. One who disguises or palliates; one who gives a fair external appearance. Pope.
• CONTINGENT
  Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• DISFEATURE
  To deprive of features; to mar the features of.
• TRICOLOR
  1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• WATER-COLORIST
  One who paints in water colors.
• DECOLOR
  To deprive of color; to bleach.