Meanings
- not comparableHaving only one color, represented by differing hues and tints. For example shades in a black and white television.
Synonyms: monochrome, monocolor, monocoloured, unicolor, unicolored
- not comparablePerceptive of only one color; unable to distinguish colors; total color blindness.
- figurativelynot comparablePlain, dull, lifeless.
Let's not […] lose our sense of boyish fun and daring, but let's at least begin to assert ourselves in the world, to impose our vision of sex and affection and spirit more and more upon the monochromatic Fatherland.
1982 April 24, Michael Rumaker, “Zephyrs”, in Gay Community News, page 5Synonyms: boring
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving only one color, represented by differing hues and tints. For example shades in a black and white television.
adjectivePlain, dull, lifeless.
antonym(s) of “single colored”
More synonyms by meaning
adjective(of light or other electromagnetic radiation) having only one wavelength
adjectivehaving or appearing to have only one color
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekμόνος“alone, only, sole, single”
- Englishmonochromatic
From mono- + chromatic, mono- from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”), chromatic from Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”).
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