recolor

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verb

To color again or differently.

OriginEnglish color ← Middle English colour ← Anglo-Norman colur →
UncommonScrabble 9
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Meanings

verbrecolor (third-person singular simple present recolors, present participle recoloring, simple past and past participle recolored)

present singular third person recolors · participle present recoloring · participle past recolored · past recolored · alternative recolour

  1. To color again or differently.
nounrecolor (plural recolors)

plural recolors · alternative recolour

  1. The process of changing the color or something.
  2. An object that has had its color changed.

    She elaborates further: "It has given me great satisfaction and fulfillment that people like my recolors. These feelings make my days less lonely and boring, even if it is only from a recolor of an object in a computer simulation game. […]

    2010, J. Gee, Elisabeth R. Hayes, Women and Gaming: The Sims and 21st Century Learning, page 88

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ḱel-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ḱélōs
  8. Proto-Italic*kelōs
  9. Old Latincolōs
  10. Latincolor
  11. Old Frenchcolor
  12. Anglo-Normancolur
  13. Middle Englishcolour
  14. Englishcolor
  15. Englishrecolor

From re- + color.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

corrolecolorer
Cite this entry
APA

recolor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recolor

MLA

“recolor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recolor. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “recolor,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recolor.

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