Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having or exhibiting many colors.
- adj. Of or composed of radiation of more than one wavelength: polychromatic light.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Many-colored: as, polychromatic light.
- In mineralogy, exhibiting a play of colors
Wiktionary
- adj. Showing a variety, or a change, of colours; having many colours; multicoloured.
- adj. physics Composed of more than one wavelength.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Showing a variety, or a change, of colors.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) composed of more than one wavelength
- adj. having or exhibiting many colors
Examples
“She and Mr. Sauerbruch design what she calls polychromatic buildings, which incorporate color as a building material.”
“Their walls are covered with paintings of the highest interest; their ceilings are rich in polychromatic decoration; and many are adorned with pillared porches cut in the solid rock.”
“The building, surrounded by gardens and approached through a grand gateway, was damaged by artillery in the Spanish civil war but still contains a riot of Moorish-influenced tiling, carved cedar doors, polychromatic wooden panels, and fine columns and arches reminiscent of the Alhambra.”
“The church where the mass was held is also an impressive example of polychromatic Gothic revival, and is worth studying in detail.”
“Seurat's works in the Milwaukee exhibition include an unusual polychromatic drawing, "The Meadow," on loan from the Guggenheim.”
The Wall Street Journal: When Impressionists Played With Pastels
“After a car crash in 2008 sidelined bassist Chi Cheng with a brain injury, his Sacramento bandmates shelved finished album Eros and enlisted fill-in Sergio Vega to embark on an uplifting, polychromatic homage to their fallen brother.”
“His face liquefies, drips chin residue into a polychromatic pool.”
“This inevitably begins by voluntarily connecting a personal story to a larger one, or several larger ones, and is a purpose-driven path to express polychromatic civic values.”
The Huffington Post: Mehret Mandefro: The Revolution of Relevance
“Mae West" also includes a new polychromatic interpretation of their unique Venini chandelier, which created a sensation last year in a white version.”
The Wall Street Journal: Out of the Gallery and Into the Home
“The plantings at Powell are mostly pointillist and polychromatic.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘polychromatic’.
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Multi-Coloured
prismatic, iridescent, psychedelic, polychromatic, hue, shades, blush, patches, wash, undertone, tint, complexion and 5 more...
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polymorph's Words
pornerastic, yeaux, enantiadromia, synchronicity, transubstantiation, sensimilla, slough, scaphism, symbiosis, prolix, orgiastic, cryptogamic and 245 more...
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poly-
many, much
polyandry, polychrome, polychromatic, polyphagia, polydactyly, polymorphous, polymorphocellular
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Art Terms
mannerism, nonrepresentational, pointillism, serigraph, alla prima, trompe l'oeil, assemblage, arabesque, polychromatic, naive art, lumina, impasto and 104 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Word-O-Matic
achromatic, apochromatic, aromatic, asymptomatic, automatic, axiomatic, chromatic, dichromatic, diplomatic, extrasomatic, heterochromatic, homochromatic and 16 more...
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12th Grade Unit 3
monochromatic, monochromatic pol..., polychromatic, monogamy, polygamy, monotheism, polytheism, polyglot, anthropology, cardiology, dermatology, ethnology and 7 more...
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12th Grade Unit 3
biometry/biometrics, symbiosis, biodegradable, theology, necrology, morphology, genealogy, ethnology, dermatology, cardiology, anthropology, polyglot and 5 more...
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Color Qualities
saturated, tinged, tinted, polychromatic, multi-colored, hued, intensity, chromatic, brilliancy, monochromic, prismatic, varicolored and 7 more...
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