Meanings
plural colourings
- CanadaUKalternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of coloring.
The seven hampers for four boys and three girls were personalised to each patient, including overnight hotel stays, colouring books and self care items.
2024 December 23, “Cancer survivor makes hampers for young patients”, in BBC1 more example
In 2008, British health ministers agreed to phase out six artificial food colourings by 2009, while the European Union bans some colourings and requires warning labels on others.
2025 April 22, Madeline Halpert, “Kennedy announces ban on artificial dyes in food and drinks”, in BBC
comparative more colouring · superlative most colouring
- Of something that provides colour.
He soon exhausted pleasure, and then reasoned upon it: he soon exhausted it, because he wanted that colouring enthusiasm which creates more than half of what it enjoys;...
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 168
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of colour
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
colouring. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colouring
“colouring.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colouring. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “colouring,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colouring.
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