Meanings
plural complementary colors
- USalternativeAlternative form of complementary colour.
He knew that red and green were called complementary colors, which meant that they were opposites, but this made no sense because the word complement meant things that fit together, which was the opposite of opposite.
2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 97
Synonyms & antonyms
nouneither one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
complementary color. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/complementary%20color
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