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noun
Something that imparts color
Synonyms: colouring, color, colorant, dye, dyestuff, pigment, food coloring, stain, tincture, food-colouring, miscoloring, grisaille, food color, food colour
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noun
Skin tone, especially of the face
Synonyms: color, complexion, coloration, dyeing, guise, imbuement, influence, intinction, quality, shading, staining, colour, tinction, tinting, variegation, colouring
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verb
Distort, exaggerate
Synonyms: perverting, wrenching, warping, twisting, distorting, misrepresenting, loading, falsifying, slanting, belying
Antonyms: representing, bleaching
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noun
A deceptive outward appearance
Synonyms: show, cloak, color, cover, disguise, disguisement, façade, face, false colors, front, gloss, guise, mask, masquerade, pretense, pretext, semblance, veil, veneer, window dressing, put-on, impasto, misquotation, nonrealism
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verb
Change color, often in an undesired manner
Synonyms: reddening, discoloring, glowing, flushing, blooming, mantling, flaming, blushing, crimsoning
Antonyms: whitening, discoloring, paling, representing, bleaching
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verb
Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
Synonyms: gilding, whitewashing, veneering, varnishing, glossing, sugarcoating
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verb
Add color to
Synonyms: tinting, painting, shading, staining, imbuing, tincturing, variegating, misteaching, misdrawing, stippling, infusing, washing, enlivening, glossing, dyeing, embellishing, adorning, perverting, palliating, emblazoning, distorting, illuminating, daubing, garbling, flushing, flagging, falsifying, gilding, enamelling, casting, suffusing, blushing, glazing
Antonyms: deadening, discoloring, fading, bleaching
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verb
To immerse in a coloring solution
Synonyms: dyeing, dipping
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verb
Decorate with colors
Synonyms: emblazoning