having a play of lustrous rainbow-like colors; "an iridescent oil slick"; "nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl"; "a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster"
strikingly strange or unusual; "an exotic hair style"; "protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants"; "the exotic landscape of a dead planet"
the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors
a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
gloss or excuse; "color a lie"
decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"
any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
of a light shade of red
cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
sound like a car engine that is firing too early; "the car pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline"; "The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded"