Color Words - Rio Hondo College

COLOR WORDS
Color Words 1
RED: Scarlet, cardinal, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, rose,
cherry, salmon, maroon, carnation, magenta, damask.
Hair: Sandy, carroty, brick red, Titian, auburn, chestnut,
strawberry blond.
Red-
Red-faced, florid, burned, rubicund, ruddy, red,
Complexion: highcolored, glowing, sanguine, blooming, rosy, hectic,
flushed, inflamed.
Reddish- Terra cotta, russet, bronze, coppery, copper-colored,
brown: chestnut, henna, hazel, auburn, rust-colored.
BROWN: Nut brown, seal brown, mahogany, chocolate, fawn,
tawny, tan, fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-colored,
copper, bronze, light brown, golden brown, tawny, ashwarm-medium-dark-coffee
brown.
ORANGE: Orange- (or gold, brass, apricot) colored, warm, hot,
glowing, flame colored.
YELLOW: Blond: golden, gilt, gilded, lemon, sallow (a yellowish sickly
hue), creamy, flaxen, yellowish, buff, corn-silk, honey-blond,
ash-blond, pale yellow, dun, gold colored (or saffron, citron,
lemon, amber, straw, primrose, cream, brass) champagne,
beige, frosted.
PURPLE: Violet, plum, lavender, lilac, puce, mauve, purplish,
amethystine, magenta.
BLUE: Azure, indigo, sapphire, sky-blue, steel blue, midnight-blue,
robin’s egg blue, baby blue, aquamarine, electric-blue,
bluish.
GREEN: Verdant, olive, emerald-green, or pea-, grass, apple, sea,
leaf, bottle-green, Kelly, aquamarine, blue-, turquoise,
greenish.
WHITE: Snow-white, snowy, frosted, silvery, milk-white, milky,
creamy, pearly, ivory, fair, blanched, light, tow-headed,
whitish.
GRAY: Iron gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, pearly, dove-colored,
silver, silvery, dapple, gray, ashen, ashy, grizzled, salt and

pepper.
Color Words 2
BLACK: Sable, somber, livid (like the color of a bruise), dark, inky,
ebony, blotchy, smudgy, low-toned.
COLORELESSNESS
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COLOR
ADJECTIVES:
Uncolored, hueless, pale, pallid, pale-faced, anemic, faint,
dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dingy, ashy,
ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster, discolored.
Bright, vivid, intense, deep, fresh, rich, gorgeous, gay,
gaudy, florid, garish, showy, flaunting, flashy, many-colored,
party-color, variegated, raw, crude, glaring, flaring, mellow,
harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, subtle, tender, dull, sad
somber, grave, gray, dark.
HAIR: Hair may be described according to its tone, color, hue,
shape, shades, shading, streaks, luster, etc.
It may be full, healthy, lustrous, opulent, elegant, luxuriant,
full-bodied, glossy, shimmering, fine, stringy, soft, sleek,
matted, coarse, thick, thin, etc.
It may be loose, tousled, natural, or it may be rigorously
styled (the “cast iron permanent”)
It may be long, mid-length, shoulder-length, free-swinging,
short, molded close to the head, stubby, bristly, etc.
It may feature bangs, curls, waves, loops, a tumble of
waves, braided, etc.
It may cover the face, frame the face, be upswept, tightly
pulled away from face.
EYES: Eyes may be wide-eyed, saucer-eyed, soft-eyed, sloe-eyed,
red-eyed, gimlet-eyed, pouchy, heavy-lidded, beady, etc.
FACES: Fine boned, sensitive, coarse, fleshy, spare, gaunt, oval,
round, moon faced, narrow, beetle-browed, hawk-faced,
horse-faced, fish-faced, etc.
NOSES: Full, snub-nosed, put-nosed, long, short, beaked, aquiline,
classic, flat-nosed, flaring nostrils, etc.

Color Words 3
BODIES: Muscular, muscle-bound, hulking, short-legged, slender,
lithe, willowy, pudgy, flabby, flaccid, obese, gaunt, bigboned,
massive, blocky, petite, demure, diminutive, etc.
THESE ARE ONLY A FEW SUGGESTIONS. THE REMAINING POSSIBILITIES ARE UNLIMITED!