EGAVE

chromatic

About 1.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Uses relating to colour Characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue.
  2. adjective Characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue.
  3. adjective Brightly coloured; colourful, vivid.
  4. adjective Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
  5. adjective Relating to colorings of graphs.
  6. adjective 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. Relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written.
  7. adjective 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.
  8. adjective Relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written.

Similar words

colored earthlike rust rusty blood-red bronze gold gilt bronzy stone

Often followed by

aberration scale and dispersion aberrations adaptation harmony scales number

Word family

chromatically chromaticism chromaticisms chromatics

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