COMPLEMENTARY COLOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does complementary color mean? 

• COMPLEMENTARY COLOR (noun)
  The noun COMPLEMENTARY COLOR has 1 sense:

1. either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments)

  Familiarity information: COMPLEMENTARY COLOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPLEMENTARY COLOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

complementary; complementary color

Context example:

yellow and blue are complementaries

Hypernyms ("complementary color" is a kind of...):

chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)