ACHROMATIC

 Dictionary entry overview: What does achromatic mean? 

• ACHROMATIC (adjective)
  The adjective ACHROMATIC has 1 sense:

1. having no hue

  Familiarity information: ACHROMATIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACHROMATIC (adjective)

Meaning:

Having no hue

Similar:

yellow-white; yellowish-white (of a white tinged with yellow)

purple-white; purplish-white (of white tinged with purple)

purple-black; purplish-black (of black tinged with purple)

pinkish-white (of white tinged with pink)

pearly; pearly-white (of a white the color of pearls)

pearl gray; pearl grey (of a grey with a pearly tinge)

neutral (of something that is lacking hue)

dark-gray; dark-grey; oxford-gray; oxford-grey (of a dark shade of grey)

olive-gray; olive-grey (of grey tinged with olive)

milk-white (of a white the color of fresh milk)

lily-white (of a pure white color)

red-gray; red-grey; reddish-gray; reddish-grey (of grey tinged with red)

sable (of a dark somewhat brownish black)

yellow-gray; yellow-grey; yellowish-gray; yellowish-grey (of grey tinged with yellow)

off-white; whitish (of something having a color tending toward white)

white-flowered ((of plants) having white flowers)

violet-black (of black tinged with violet)

soot-black; sooty-black (of the black color of soot)

snow-white; snowy (of the white color of snow)

slate-gray; slate-grey; slatey; slaty; slaty-gray; slaty-grey; stone-gray; stone-grey (of the color of slate or granite)

slate-black (of a black tinged with slate-grey)

silver-white; silvery-white (of a white that resembles silver)

silver-gray; silver-grey; silvery-gray; silvery-grey (of grey resembling silver)

iron-gray; iron-grey (of the grey color of iron)

ink-black; inky; inky-black (of the color of black ink)

brown-gray; brown-grey; brownish-gray; brownish-grey (of grey tinged with brown)

brown-black; brownish-black (of black tinged with brown)

blue-black; bluish black (of black tinged with blue)

blue-gray; blue-grey; bluish-gray; bluish-grey (of grey tinged with blue)

blue-white; bluish-white; cool-white (of white tinged with blue)

black-gray; black-grey; blackish-gray; blackish-grey (of dark grey)

blackish (of something that is somewhat black)

ash-gray; ash-grey; ashy (of a light grey)

argent; silver; silverish; silvery (of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver)

charcoal; charcoal-gray; charcoal-grey (of a very dark grey)

canescent (of greyish white)

chalky (of something having the color of chalk)

gray-black; grayish-black; grey-black; greyish-black (of black tinged with grey)

greenish-gray; greenish-grey (of grey tinged with green)

gray-white; grayish-white; grey-white; greyish-white (of white tinged with grey)

hueless (of something totally lacking in saturation and therefore having no hue)

gray; grayish; grey; greyish (of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black)

ebon; ebony (of a very dark black)

dull-white (of a dull shade of white)

cottony-white (of something as white as cotton)

coal-black; jet; jet-black; pitchy; sooty (of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal)

green-white; greenish-white (of white flowers tinged with green)

Also:

colorless; colourless (weak in color; not colorful)

Attribute:

chromaticity; hue (the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength)

Antonym:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)