coloring

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: col=or=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

coloring, n. 

•  The act of applying color to; also, that which produces color.  [1913 Webster]
•  Change of appearance as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation.  [1913 Webster]

  "Tell the whole story without coloring or gloss."  [1913 Webster]

Dead coloring. See under Dead.

THESAURUS

coloring

Klangfarbe, abstractionism, achromatism, acrylic painting, acting, affectation, affective meaning, appearance, attitudinizing, bearing, bloom, bluff, bluffing, blush, blushing, cast, cheating, chromatic, chromatism, chromism, chromogen, clang color, coat, coat of paint, coating, cold, color, color balance, color filter, color gelatin, color harmony, color printing, color scheme, colorant, coloration, colorific, coloring, complexion, confabulation, connotation, consequence, cool, crimsoning, dead-color, deception, decorator color, deformation, delusion, denotation, dichromatic, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, distemper, distortion, drier, drift, dye, dyeing, dyestuff, effect, embellishment, emblazonry, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting, equivocation, erubescent, essence, exaggeration, expressionism, extension, exterior paint, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air, false coloring, false front, false show, false swearing, falsification, falsifying, falsity, feigning, feint, finger painting, flat coat, flat wash, floor enamel, flower painting, flush, flushing, force, four-flushing, fraud, fresco painting, front, garbling, genre painting, gilt, gist, gloss, glow, glowing, gouache, grammatical meaning, grisaille, ground, guise, harmonious, hectic, hectic flush, hue, humbug, humbuggery, hyperbole, idea, illumination, illustration, impact, impasto, implication, import, imposture, inaccuracy, injustice, intension, interior paint, key, lexical meaning, literal meaning, lithography, litotes, mantling, many-colored, masquerade, matching, meaning, medium, medley, meretriciousness, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdrawing, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, mural painting, natural color, nonrealism, oil painting, opaque color, ostentation, outward show, overdrawing, overstatement, overtone, paint, painting, pallor, parti-colored, perjury, pertinence, perversion, picturization, pigment, pigmentary, pigmentation, pith, playacting, point, polychromatic, portraiture, pose, posing, poster painting, posture, practical consequence, pretense, pretension, pretext, prevarication, prime coat, primer, priming, prismatic, pudency, pudicity, purport, put-on, rainbow, range of meaning, real meaning, reddening, reference, referent, relation, relevance, representation, rubefacient, rubescence, rubescent, rubificative, rufescence, scope, seeming, semantic cluster, semantic field, semblance, sense, shade, sham, show, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, simulacrum, simulation, skin color, slanting, span of meaning, speciousness, spectral, spirit, stain, staining, straining, structural meaning, substance, suffusion, sum, sum and substance, symbolic meaning, tempera, tenor, the brush, thinner, timbre, tinct, tinction, tinctorial, tincture, tinge, tingent, tinging, tint, tinting, tonality, tone, tone color, tone quality, toning, totality of associations, transferred meaning, transparent color, turpentine, turps, twisting, unadorned meaning, undercoat, undercoating, undercolor, understatement, undertone, value, variegated, varnish, vehicle, warm, wash, wash coat, wash drawing, window dressing

ROGET THESAURUS

coloring

Color

N color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush, tone, key, pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive complementary color, three primaries, spectrum, chromatic dispersion, broken color, secondary color, tertiary color, local color, coloring, keeping, tone, value, aerial perspective, chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy, chromatism, chromatography, chromatology, prism, spectroscope, spectrograph, spectrometer, colorimeter (optical instruments), pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain, medium, mordant, oil paint, colored, colorific, tingent, tinctorial, chromatic, prismatic, full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored, doubly-dyed, polychromatic, chromatogenous, tingible, bright, vivid, intense, deep, fresh, unfaded, rich, gorgeous, gay, gaudy, florid, gay, garish, rainbow-colored, multihued, showy, flaunting, flashy, raw, crude, glaring, flaring, discordant, inharmonious, mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.

Qualification

N qualification, limitation, modification, coloring, allowance, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating circumstances, mitigation, condition, proviso, prerequisite, contingency, stipulation, provision, specification, sine qua non, catch, string, strings attached, exemption, exception, escape clause, salvo, saving clause, discount, restriction, fine print, qualifying, qualified, conditioned, restricted, hedged, conditional, exceptional, hypothetical, contingent, provided, provided that, provided always, if, unless, but, yet, according as, conditionally, admitting, supposing, on the supposition of, with the understanding, even, although, though, for all that, after all, at all events, approximately, in a limited degree (smallness), somewhat, sort of, something like that, to a certain extent, to a degree, in a sense, so to speak, with grains of allowance, cum grano salis, with a grain of salt, exceptis excipiendis, wind and weather permitting, if possible, subject to, conditioned upon, with this proviso, if the good lord is willing and the creeks don't r, catch-, Degrees of Evidence.

Meaning

N meaning, signification, significance, sense, expression, import, purport, force, drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring, scope, substance, gist, essence, marrow, spirit, matter, subject, subject matter, argument, text, sum and substance, general meaning, broad meaning, substantial meaning, colloquial meaning, literal meaning, plain meaning, simple meaning, natural meaning, unstrained meaning, true meaning, honest meaning, &c 543 prima facie meaning, letter of the law, literally, after acceptation, synonym, implication, allusion, suggestion, figure of speech, acceptation, meaning, expressive, suggestive, allusive, significant, significative, significatory, pithy, full of meaning, pregnant with meaning, declaratory, intelligible, literal, synonymous, tantamount, implied, explicit, to that effect, that is to say.

Exaggeration

N exaggeration, expansion, hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring, high coloring, caricature, caricatura, extravagance, Baron Munchausen, men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale, fish story, gooseberry, storm in a teacup, much ado about nothing, puff, puffery, rant, figure of speech, facon de parler, stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination, flight of fancy, false coloring, aggravation, exaggerated, overwrought, bombastic, hyperbolical, on stilts, fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre, highflying, hyperbolically, excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.