Light and Colours Flashcards
having or showing forth little light
dim, dingy, murky, darkish, shadowy, shady, gloomy, umbral, umbrageous
without light
dark, dusky, unlighted, unilluminated, unlit, obscure, tenebrous, stygian, caliginous, fuliginous, sunless
giving forth light
shining, beaming, bright, illuminated, illumined, luminous, irradiated, radiant, lucent, lustrous, luminiferous
very bright
brilliant, glaring, blazing, blinding, refulgent, effulgent
lighted
lit, lit up, alight, aglow, irradiated
sparking
glittering, scintillating, coruscating, twinkling
sparkling or shining in a subdued way
shimmering, shimmery
giving off reflected light
glinting, gleaming
shining with reflected light
glistening
flashing
fulgurant, fulgurating
flashing occasionally or fitfully
winking
flashing regularly
blinking, stroboscopic
flashing weakly or going out
fluttering, guttering, sputtering
showing deflected light rays or distortion of image
refracted, refractive
burning unsteadily or suddenly
flaring, blazing
giving off flame-like light
flickering, wavering, lambent
flame-coloured
flammeous
glowing or luminescent with absorbed radiation in a continuing way
phosphorescent
glowing or luminescent with electromagnetic radiation
fluorescent
visible or glowing at night
noctilucent
glowing whitely with light or intense heat
incandescent
giving off a reddish or golden glow
rutilant
having a milky or cloudy iridescence (like an opal)
opalescent, opaline
having a pearly iridescence (like a pearl)
nacreous, pearlescent
transparent
sheer
solid // not transparent
not transparent, untransparent, nontransparent, opaque, adiaphanous, impervious
admitting the passage of (or letting show through) light
transluent, diaphanous, pellucid, sheer
transparent in water or when wet
hydrophanous
without colour
colourless, hueless, achromatic, achromic, untinged
coloured
colourful, hued, toned, painted, chromatic, pigmented, tinctured (dyed or stained)
slightly or weakly coloured
tinged, tinted, tinctured
having one colour or hue
monochrome, monochromatic, monochromous, monochromic, monotone
having many colours
many-coloured, multicoloured, parti-coloured, variegated, motley, varicoloured, versicolour, versicoloured, polychormatic, polychrome, polychromic kaleidoscopic, prismatic
rainbow-like
iridescent, iridian
changeable in or showing a shift or play colour
iridescent
highly or brilliant coloured
prismatic
having altered or poor coloration
discoloured
useful colour modifiers
antique, bleached out, bled, bright, brilliant, burnt, clashing, cool, dark, Day-glo (fluorescent in daylight), dazzling, deep, discordant, drab, dull, dun, dusky, dusty, electric, faded, faint, fluorescent, garish, gaudy, gay, glowing, hot, light, lustrous, medium, mellow, metallic, moderate, muted, neon, pale, pastel, phosphorescent, pure, riot (of), slate, smoky, soft, streaky, strong, vibrant, vivid, warm, washed-out
Snow White
snowy, niveous
white as chalk
chalk white, cretaceous, chalky
white as milk
milky white
white as a lily
lily white
bleached out white
blanched, etiolated
not quite pure white, slightly grayish
off-white (ex. oyster, cream, eggshell)
thinly or translucently white
bone white
bluish white
alabaster
yellowish white
eggshell, cream, ivory, bone
grayish white
oyster, platinum, tattletale gray
silvery white
argent