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Meaning
Adj
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In Colors:
Uses
relating
to colour
Characterized or
caused
by, or
relating
to,
colour
or hue.
Brightly
coloured
;
colourful
, vivid.
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In Optics & Colors:
Uses
relating
to colour
Having the
capacity
to
separate
spectral
colours
by refraction.
●
In Ancient Greece & Music:
One of three types of
tetrachord
(the others being the
diatonic
and
enharmonic
), with an
interval
between
half
and
four-fifths
of the total
interval
of a
tetrachord
.
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In Music & Colors:
Relating to or using
notes
not
belonging
to the
diatonic scale
of the
key in
which a
passage
of
music
is written.
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In Biology:
Relating to
chromatin
(“a
complex
of DNA, RNA, and
proteins
within the
cell nucleus
out of
which
chromosomes
condense
during cell division”).
Sourced from
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Origin
chromatic
English
χρῶμα
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Sourced from
Etym
Antonyms
Nonchromatic
Achromatic
Drab
Dull
Colourless
Diatonic
Related
Harmonic
Tonal
Colour
Chordal
Diatonic
Color
Tritones
Chrominance
Spectral
Microtonal
Mediant
Texture
Polyphonic
Melody
Brightness
Rhythmic
Photometric
Melodic
Lightness
Contrapuntal
Tone
Compositional
Light
Textural
Luminance
Hue
Wavelength
Pixel
Sharpness
Gradient
Illumination
Percussive
Syncopated
Shading
Stylistic
Amplitude
Legato
Dissonant
Pentatonic Scale
Harmonic Progression
Bass Clef
Diatonic Scale
Modal Scales
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Rhymes
Attic
Vatic
Static
Lovatic
Hepatic
Fanatic
Sematic
Erratic
Emphatic
Aromatic
Climatic
Diabatic
Schematic
Axiomatic
Katabatic
Rheumatic
Epistatic
Asthmatic
Zygomatic
Chromatic
Prismatic
Automatic
Kinematic
Adiabatic
Systematic
Episematic
Democratic
Autocratic
Aposematic
Phlegmatic
Bizygomatic
Manticratic
Technocratic
Meritocratic
Subzygomatic
Aristocratic
Asymptomatic
Endolymphatic
Postzygomatic
Oculozygomatic
Infrazygomatic
Retrozygomatic
Suprazygomatic
Interzygomatic
Frontozygomatic
Sphenozygomatic
Thermochromatic
Circumzygomatic
Squamozygomatic
Temporozygomatic
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