MONOCHROME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monochrome mean? 

• MONOCHROME (noun)
  The noun MONOCHROME has 2 senses:

1. painting done in a range of tones of a single color

2. a black-and-white photograph or slide

  Familiarity information: MONOCHROME used as a noun is rare.

• MONOCHROME (adjective)
  The adjective MONOCHROME has 1 sense:

1. having or appearing to have only one color

  Familiarity information: MONOCHROME used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONOCHROME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Painting done in a range of tones of a single color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("monochrome" is a kind of...):

painting; picture (graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface)

Derivation:

monochrome (having or appearing to have only one color)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A black-and-white photograph or slide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

black and white; monochrome

Hypernyms ("monochrome" is a kind of...):

exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)

• MONOCHROME (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or appearing to have only one color

Synonyms:

monochromatic; monochrome; monochromic; monochromous

Similar:

colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)

Derivation:

monochrome (painting done in a range of tones of a single color)

 Context examples 

The researchers observed tabanid horse flies around zebras and domestic horses in captive settings and they found the flies had a harder time landing on zebras than on the monochrome coats of the horses.

(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)