beige

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
beige
    adj 1: of a light greyish-brown color
    n 1: a very light brown [syn: {beige}, {ecru}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Beige \Beige\, n. [F.]
   Debeige.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
colorful \colorful\ adj.
   1. having striking color. Opposite of {colorless}.

   Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
         shot}; {deep, rich}; {flaming}; {fluorescent, glowing};
         {prismatic}; {psychedelic}; {red, ruddy, flushed,
         empurpled}]

   Syn: colourful.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of {colorless}
      or {dull}. [Narrower terms: {brave, fine, gay, glorious};
      {flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained}; {flashy, gaudy,
      jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; {picturesque}]
      [WordNet 1.5]

   3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
      as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of {colorless} and
      {monochrome}.

   Note: [Narrower terms: {tinted}; {touched, tinged}; {amber,
         brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; {amethyst}; {auburn,
         reddish-brown}; {aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden};
         {azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue}; {bicolor,
         bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue,
         bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful,
         blush-colored, rosy}; {bottle-green}; {bronze, bronzy};
         {brown, brownish, dark-brown}; {buff}; {canary,
         canary-yellow}; {caramel, caramel brown}; {carnation};
         {chartreuse}; {chestnut}; {dun}; {earth-colored,
         earthlike}; {fuscous}; {green, greenish, light-green,
         dark-green}; {jade, jade-green}; {khaki}; {lavender,
         lilac}; {mauve}; {moss green, mosstone}; {motley,
         multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
         painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
         varicolored, varicoloured}; {mousy, mouse-colored};
         {ocher, ochre}; {olive-brown}; {olive-drab}; {olive};
         {orange, orangish}; {peacock-blue}; {pink, pinkish};
         {purple, violet, purplish}; {red, blood-red, carmine,
         cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
         scarlet}; {red, reddish}; {rose, roseate}; {rose-red};
         {rust, rusty, rust-colored}; {snuff, snuff-brown,
         snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
         snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel,
         brownish-orange}; {stone, stone-gray}; {straw-color,
         straw-colored, straw-coloured}; {tan}; {tangerine};
         {tawny}; {ultramarine}; {umber}; {vermilion,
         vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; {yellow, yellowish};
         {yellow-green}; {avocado}; {bay}; {beige}; {blae
         bluish-black or gray-blue)}; {coral}; {creamy}; {cress
         green, cresson, watercress}; {hazel}; {honey,
         honey-colored}; {hued(postnominal)}; {magenta};
         {maroon}; {pea-green}; {russet}; {sage, sage-green};
         {sea-green}] [Also See: {chromatic}, {colored}, {dark},
         {light}.]

   Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
        [WordNet 1.5]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "beige":
      aureate, auric, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, buff,
      buff-yellow, canary, canary-yellow, chocolate, cinnamon, citron,
      citron-yellow, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, cream,
      creamy, drab, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, fallow, fawn,
      fawn-colored, flaxen, fuscous, gilded, gilt, gold, gold-colored,
      golden, grege, hazel, khaki, lemon, lemon-yellow, lurid, luteolous,
      lutescent, nut-brown, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous,
      ochroid, ochrous, ochry, olive-brown, olive-drab, or, primrose,
      primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, saffron, saffron-colored,
      saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sandy, seal, seal-brown,
      sepia, snuff-colored, sorrel, straw, straw-colored, tan, taupe,
      tawny, toast, toast-brown, umber, umber-colored, walnut,
      walnut-brown, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish,
      yellowish-brown

    

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