Meanings
plural colours · alternative US color
- countableuncountableCommonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
Substances float around each other until you crush them all with a blender. Add a bit of white miso, lemon juice, truffle oil, chives: survey your wreckage, which will be the wrong colour (cream with a hint of grey) and the wrong consistency (gluey).
2018 July 19, Zoe Williams, “Can ditching meat and dairy open up new taste sensations? My week as a foodie vegan”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2022
alternative US color
- not comparableCommonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
present singular third person colours · participle present colouring · participle past coloured · past coloured · alternative US color
- Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving or capable of producing colors
nounany material used for its color
noun(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
nouna visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
nounan outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
nounthe appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
verbadd color to
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Cite this entry
colour. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colour
“colour.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colour. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “colour,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colour.
Source: colour on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.