Adjacent Words

polychrome definitions

	Tweet

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having or exhibiting many colors [syn: polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic] n
1: a piece of work composed of or decorated in many colors v
1: color with many colors; make polychrome [syn: polychrome, polychromize, polychromise]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Greek polychr?mos, from poly- + chr?ma Date: 1837 relating to, made with, or decorated in several colors <polychrome pottery> • polychrome transitive verb • polychromy noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. painted, printed, or decorated in many colours. --n. 1 a work of art in several colours, esp. a coloured statue. 2 varied colouring. Derivatives: polychromic adj. polychromous adj. Etymology: F f. Gk polukhromos as POLY-(1), khroma colour

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Polychrome Pol"y*chrome, n. [Poly- + Gr. ? color.] (Chem.) Esculin; -- so called in allusion to its fluorescent solutions. [R.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Polychrome Pol"y*chrome, a. [Cf. F. polychrome.] Executed in the manner of polychromy; as, polychrome printing.

Moby Thesaurus

bicolor, bicolored, colorful, colory, crazy, daedal, dichroism, dichromatic, dichromatism, discolor, divers-colored, freehand, graphic, harlequin, kaleidoscopic, many-colored, medley, monochrome, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, multihued, painty, parti-color, parti-colored, pastose, photographic, pictorial, picturable, pictural, picturesque, polychromatic, polychromatism, polychromic, prismal, riot of colors, scenographic, scumbled, shot, shot through, spectral, thunder and lightning, trichroism, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone, varicolored, variegated, variegation, versicolor, versicolored