COLOUR, COLOURED, COLOURFUL, COLOURING
ADJECTIVES
..700 — FAW coloured, stained, streaked; particoloured, variegated → obs.
1290 — FADE dull, pale, wan, sombre; said of colour → obs.
1381 — FAIR bright, pure, not dull or muddy; said of colour → obs.
1400 — SKIRE clear; bright; said of colours → obs.
1400 — VARIANT varied, variegated; also of an animal or cloth in respect of colour; said of colours → obs.
1422 — Y-COLOURID coloured → obs.
1425 — POLYMITE woven out of many different or different-coloured threads; multicoloured → obs.
1425 — VAIR varied or variegated in colour → Sc. obs.
1531 — FUCATE artificially coloured, beautified with paint; hence, falsified, disguised, counterfeit → obs.
1579 — TINCT coloured, tinted; dyed, tinged → poetic usage
1583 — WANTON gay, lively; said of colour → obs.
1606 — NEAR-COLOURED of much the same colour → obs.
1650 — TINGENT that colours or tinges; colouring; dyeing → obs.
1655 — TINCTORIAL yielding or using colouring matter or dye
1656 — TINGIBLE capable of being coloured or tinged
1664 — QUICK vivid, bright, dazzling; said of colour
1669 — SATURATE intense, deep; said of colours
1706 — SAVAGE crude, harsh, violent; said of colour → obs.
1720 — DUMB of a colour: lacking brightness, dull, subdued
1721 — ILL-COLOURED having a bad or unhealthy colour; discoloured
1750 — RARE thin, faint; said of colour → obs.
1761 — ACHROMIC free from colour → obs.
1769 — EYE-FILLING extremely colourful, attractive, etc.
1786 — TINCTORIOUS yielding or using colouring matter or dye
1788 — SAD dark, deep; said of colour → Eng. dial.
1802 — DAPPERPYE many-coloured, variegated → Sc.
1808 — MALLACHIE of the colour of milk and water mixed → Sc.
1819 — POLYCHROME multicoloured, esp. painted, decorated or printed in many colours
1824 — SCAUMY of an imperfect or disagreeable colour → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1825 — POLYCHROMIC having various colours; multicoloured
1828 — MUDDLED of colour: not clear, clouded
1847 — POLYCHROMED multicoloured
1857 — MONOCHROMOUS having only one colour
1857 — PARACHROOUS of a false or altered colour; deprived of colour → obs.
1866 — RORY loud in colour, gaudy, glaring → Sc.
1874 — RORY-TORY having a mixture of all sorts of flaring colours; gaudy, tawdry, showy, dashing; generally used of colour in dress → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1880 — POLYCHROMOUS multicoloured, esp. painted, decorated, or printed in many colours
1882 — DECOLORATE having lost its colour
1889 — POLYCHROMATOUS having various colours; multicoloured
1900 — DAGGED dotted with colour → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 — KAERY of many colours → Sc. (Bk.)
1903 — VARIOTINTED of various colours or tints
1905 — MANGY unevenly coloured; spotted → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — RANED — RIAND of two colours, streaked → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — WALLOW faint, indistinct; said of colour → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1908 — IMET of a nondescript colour; applied to anything badly washed or dyed → Sc.
1916 — ACID intense, vivid; said of colour
1916 — MUCKLE-DUN of a muddy grey or brown colour; of a nondescript colour → Amer. dial.
1933 — MINGLEDY of mixed colours, variegated → Amer. dial.
1941 — MINGLY of mixed colours, variegated → Amer. dial.
1950 — MOODY-COLORED of a dull or sad colour → Amer. dial.
1957 — MANGLY of mixed colours, variegated → Amer. dial.
1970 — BONT colourful; gaudy, lurid → S. Afr.
1971 — ACID-HUED vivid, psychedelic; said of colour
1971 — ACIDIC strikingly bright, intense, or gaudy in colour
ADVERBS
1851 — ABLAZE in flashing or brilliant colours; gleaming
NOUNS
..888 — BLEE colour, hue → arch.
1374 — VENOM a colouring matter; a dye → obs.
1400 — TINCTURE a colouring matter, dye, pigment; a dye used as a cosmetic → obs.
1477 — TINCTURE colour, hue; a tinge, tint
1490 — TAINTURE colouring → obs.
1535 — VEHEMENCE intensity or strength of colour
1555 — VARIETY a being varied in colour; variegation → obs.
1567 — TAINT colour, hue, tint; tinge; dye → obs.
1601 — HARMOGE a harmony of colours or sounds → obs.
1601 — TINCTURE a colouring, dyeing, or staining → obs.
1602 — TINCT colour, hue, tint; colouring matter, dye → poetic usage
1640 — DECOLORATION deprivation or loss of colour
1646 — VEIL a slight colouring or tinge
1721 — CHROMATISM natural colouring
1737 — CHROMATOPOIA the art of making colours
1801 — POLYCHROME a work of art executed or decorated in many colours, esp. a coloured statue, carving, or painting
1845 — POLYCHROMY the art of painting or decorating in many colours, esp. as used in ancient pottery, sculpture, architecture, etc.
1846 — CHROMATOLOGY the science of colours
1853 — BEAUTY-BLOOM beautiful colour or tint
1860 — POLYCHROMATISM the condition or quality of being multicoloured
1871 — DECOLORIZATION deprivation of its colour
1888 — TINCTION colouring, tinging, tinting; the act of imbuing with colour
1895 — TINCTUMUTANT an animal that changes colour
1895 — TINCTUMUTATION change of colour
1899 — POLYCHROMING a painting or decorating with many colours
1903 — POLYCHROMISM a being multicoloured
1904 — SANDY-GREY-RUSSET a dirty, ugly colour → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — MALLACHIE the colour of milk and water mixed together → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 — URE colour, tinge; a stain → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 — EER colour, tinge → Sc.
1991 — CHROMOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of colours (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
1842 — POLYCHROMIST a person who applies coloured paint to a statue or other work of art; a colourist
VERBS
1000 — SMIT to stain; to soil; to colour; to tinge → obs.
1430 — FAINT to lose colour or brightness; to fade, to die away
1471 — TAINT to colour, to dye. to tinge → obs.
1535 — FUCATE to colour, to paint, to counterfeit → obs.
1564 — BEDASH to cover with colour or adornment
1594 — TINCT to colour; to dye; to tinge, to tint → obs.
1641 — PRETINCT to colour or influence beforehand → obs.
1831 — DECOLOUR to deprive of colour
1836 — DECOLOURIZE to deprive of colour
1845 — ACHROMATIZE to deprive of colour; to render achromatic
1846 — DECOLORATE to deprive of colour
1848 — POLYCHROMATIZE to paint or adorn a surface with many colours
1860 — POLYCHROMIZE to make an object multicoloured; to decorate with several colours → obs.
1899 — POLYCHROME to paint or decorate a drawing, sculpture, etc. with many colours
1904 — SCAW to lose colour; to become faded → Sc. (Bk.)