Defenition of the word pigment

• Defenition of the word pigment

  • A highly colored, insoluble substance that impart color to other materials.
  • dry coloring matter (especially an insoluble powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint etc)
  • color or dye with a pigment; "pigment a photograph"
  • acquire pigment; become colored or imbued
  • a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating
  • dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
  • any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
  • color or dye with a pigment

Synonyms for the word pigment

• • color
  • coloring
  • dye
  • stain
  • tincture
  • tint

Similar words in the pigment

• • pigment
  • pigment's
  • pigmentation
  • pigmentation's
  • pigments

Hyponyms for the word pigment

• • acrylic
  • acrylic paint
  • alizarin
  • alizarine
  • animal pigment
  • antifouling paint
  • bacteriochlorophyll
  • bister
  • bistre
  • bole
  • cadmium yellow
  • carotenoid
  • cerulean blue
  • ceruse
  • chinese white
  • chlorophyl
  • chlorophyll
  • chrome green
  • chrome yellow
  • coat of paint
  • cobalt blue
  • cobalt ultramarine
  • cupric acetate
  • distemper
  • earth color
  • enamel
  • encaustic
  • finger paint
  • fingerpaint
  • flavonoid
  • haem
  • haemitin
  • haemosiderin
  • hematin
  • heme
  • hemosiderin
  • Hooker's green
  • house paint
  • housepaint
  • Indian red
  • iron blue
  • ivory black
  • lake
  • lead carbonate
  • mosaic gold
  • oil paint
  • orange
  • Paris green
  • Payne's gray
  • payne's grey
  • photopigment
  • phycobilin
  • phycocyanin
  • phycoerythrin
  • porphyrin
  • protoheme
  • Prussian blue
  • retinal
  • retinene
  • semigloss
  • sepia
  • spray paint
  • stannic sulfide
  • titania
  • titanic oxide
  • titanium dioxide
  • titanium oxide
  • ultramarine
  • ultramarine blue
  • verdigris
  • water-base paint
  • water-color
  • water-colour
  • watercolor
  • watercolour
  • white lead
  • zinc white

Hypernyms for the word pigment

• • coat
  • coating
  • color
  • color in
  • coloring material
  • colorise
  • colorize
  • colour
  • colour in
  • colouring material
  • colourise
  • colourize
  • hue

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