Definition of chromatic Chromatic
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We found 11 definitions of chromatic from 5 different sources.
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What does chromatic mean?
WordNet
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| chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue | ||
| achromatic, neutral having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white" | ||
| chestnut (of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color; "a chestnut horse"; "chestnut hair" | ||
| colorful, colored, coloured having striking color; "colorful autumn leaves" | ||
| chromaticity, hue the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength | ||
| amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown of a medium to dark brownish yellow color | ||
| amber-green of green tinged with amber | ||
| amethyst of a moderate purple color | ||
| auburn (of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown; "auburn hair" | ||
| gilt, aureate, gold, gilded, golden having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" | ||
| avocado of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado | ||
| azure, bright blue, cerulean, sky-blue of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky; "October's bright blue weather" | ||
| beige of a light greyish-brown color | ||
| blackish-brown of brown tinged with black | ||
| blackish-red of red tinged with black | ||
| blae of bluish-black or grey-blue | ||
| blueish, bluish, blue causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" | ||
| blue-green, bluish green, cyan, teal of a bluish shade of green | ||
| blue-lilac, bluish-lilac of lavender tinged with blue | ||
| blue-purple, bluish-purple of purple tinged with blue | ||
| blue-violet, bluish-violet of violet tinted with blue | ||
| blushful, rosy of blush color; "blushful mists" | ||
| bottle-green of a dark to moderate greyish green color | ||
| bright-red, raspberry-red of the red of fresh raspberries | ||
| bronzy, bronze of the color of bronze | ||
| bronze-red of red tinged with bronze | ||
| brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown, brown (of skin) deeply suntanned | ||
| brown-green, brownish-green of green tinged with brown | ||
| brown-purple, brownish-purple of dark purple tinted with brown | ||
| buff of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather | ||
| buff-brown of brown tinged with buff | ||
| canary, canary-yellow having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow | ||
| caramel, caramel brown having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow-brown | ||
| carnation pink or pinkish | ||
| chartreuse of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur | ||
| chestnut (of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color; "a chestnut horse"; "chestnut hair" | ||
| chestnut-brown (of hair or feathers) of brown tinged with chestnut | ||
| copper colored, coppery of something having the color of copper | ||
| coral of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color | ||
| coral-red of red tinged with coral | ||
| creamy of the color of cream; "creamy translucent pebbles" | ||
| creamy-yellow yellow with a creamy tinge | ||
| cress green, cresson, watercress of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green | ||
| crimson-magenta magenta tinged with crimson | ||
| crimson-purple purple tinged with crimson | ||
| crimson-yellow yellow tinged with crimson | ||
| dark-blue of a dark shade of blue | ||
| deep-pink of a deep shade of pink | ||
| deep-yellow of something having the color of a pumpkin | ||
| dull-purple of a dull shade of purple | ||
| dun of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun and dreary prairie" | ||
| earthlike earth colored; of something having a color of soil or earth; "a range of earthlike colors" | ||
| fuscous, taupe of something having a dusky brownish grey color | ||
| golden-yellow of yellow tinged with gold | ||
| golden-brown of brown tinged with gold | ||
| golden-green of green tinged with gold | ||
| gray-blue, grayish-blue, grey-blue, greyish-blue of blue tinged with grey | ||
| gray-brown, grayish-brown, grey-brown, greyish-brown of brown tinged with grey | ||
| gray-green, grayish-green, grey-green, greyish-green of green tinged with grey | ||
| gray-pink, grayish-pink, grey-pink, greyish-pink of pink tinged with grey | ||
| dark-green, greenish, light-green, green of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass; "a green tree"; "green fields"; "green paint" | ||
| greenish-brown of brown tinged with green | ||
| hazel of a light brown or yellowish brown color | ||
| hazel-brown of brown tinged with hazel | ||
| honey of something having the color of honey | ||
| jade, jade-green of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green | ||
| khaki of a yellowish brown color | ||
| lavender, lilac, lilac-colored of a pale purple color | ||
| lavender-tinged of something tinged with lavender | ||
| light-blue, pale blue of a light shade of blue | ||
| lilac-blue, violet-blue of blue tinged with lavender | ||
| lavender-pink, lilac-pink, violet-pink of pink tinged with lavender | ||
| lilac-purple of purple tinged with lilac | ||
| magenta of deep purplish red | ||
| magenta pink of pink tinged with magenta | ||
| brownish-red, maroon of dark brownish to purplish red | ||
| maroon-purple of purple tinged with maroon | ||
| mauve of a pale to moderate greyish violet color | ||
| mauve-blue of blue tinged with mauve | ||
| mauve-pink of pink tinged with mauve | ||
| moss green, mosstone of a moderate somewhat dull yellow-green color | ||
| mouse-colored, mouselike, mousey, mousy quiet and timid and ineffectual | ||
| ocher, ochre of a moderate orange-yellow color | ||
| olive-brown of a brown color with a greenish tinge | ||
| olive-drab, drab of a light brownish green color | ||
| olive of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive | ||
| orange, orangish of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange | ||
| orange-red, orangish-red of red tinged with orange | ||
| orange-brown of brown tinged with orange | ||
| peachy-colored, peachy-coloured, peachy of something resembling a peach in color | ||
| peacock-blue of bright greenish blue | ||
| pea-green of a moderate slightly yellowish-green color | ||
| pink, pinkish of a light shade of red | ||
| pink-lavender, pinkish-lavender of lavender tinged with pink | ||
| pink-orange, pinkish-orange, salmon of orange tinged with pink | ||
| pink-red of red tinged with pink | ||
| pink-tinged of a color tinged with pink | ||
| pink-purple, pinkish-purple of purple tinged with pink | ||
| powder blue, powdery-blue of a moderate to pale blue or purplish blue | ||
| purplish, violet, purple of a color intermediate between red and blue | ||
| purple-blue, purplish-blue of blue tinged with purple | ||
| purple-brown, purplish-brown of brown tinged with purple | ||
| purple-green, purplish-green of green tinged with purple | ||
| purple-lilac, purplish-lilac of lavender tinged with purple | ||
| purple-red, purplish-red of red tinged with purple | ||
| purple-tinged, purple-tinted of a color tinged with purple | ||
| blood-red, ruby-red, ruby, reddish, scarlet, cherry-red, cherry, cerise, carmine, ruddy, crimson, red characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode | ||
| mahogany-red, red-brown, reddish-brown of brown tinged with red | ||
| red-lavender, reddish-lavender of something having a lavender color tinged with red | ||
| reddish-pink of a pink color that is close to red | ||
| flame-orange, red-orange, reddish-orange of orange tinged with red | ||
| red-purple, reddisn-purple of purple tinged with red | ||
| red-violet, reddish-violet of violet tinged with red | ||
| rose, roseate, rosaceous of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn" | ||
| rose-red of a deep slightly bluish red color | ||
| rose-lavender, rose-lilac of lavender tinged with rose | ||
| rose-mauve of mauve tinged with rose | ||
| rose-purple, rosy-purple of purple with a rose tinge | ||
| rose-tinged, rose-tinted of a color tinged with rose | ||
| russet of brown with a reddish tinge | ||
| rust, rust-brown, rusty of the brown color of rust | ||
| rust-red, rusty-red of a red color tinged with rust | ||
| rusty-brown of something having the brown color of rust | ||
| sage-green, sage of the grey-green color of sage leaves | ||
| sapphire of something having the color of a blue sapphire; "sapphire eyes" | ||
| scarlet-crimson of crimson tinged with scarlet | ||
| scarlet-pink of pink tinged with scarlet | ||
| sea-green of the color of the sea; bluish green | ||
| silver-blue, silvery-blue of something having a color that is a light shiny blue | ||
| silver-green, silvery-green of something having a color that is a light shiny green | ||
| chukker-brown, mummy-brown, snuff, snuff-brown snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown | ||
| brownish-orange, sorrel of a light brownish color | ||
| stone of any of various dull tannish or grey colors | ||
| straw of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored | ||
| sulfur-yellow, sulphur-yellow of something having the yellow color of sulfur | ||
| tan of a light yellowish-brown color | ||
| tannish of a color resembling tan | ||
| tangerine of a strong reddish orange color | ||
| tawny, tawny-brown of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather | ||
| ultramarine of a brilliant pure blue to purplish blue color | ||
| umber of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments | ||
| chinese-red, cinnabar, vermilion, vermillion of a vivid red to reddish-orange color | ||
| vinaceous of the color of wine | ||
| violet-tinged, violet-tinted of something that is tinged with violet | ||
| white-pink of pink tinged with white; a light tint of pink | ||
| wine-red of something having the dark red color of red wine | ||
| xanthous, yellowish, yellow of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk | ||
| yellow-beige, yellowish-beige of beige tinged with yellow; | ||
| yellow-green of a color midway between yellow and green | ||
| yellow-orange, yellowish-orange of orange tinged with yellow | ||
| chromatic - based on a scale consisting of 12 semitones; "a chromatic scale" | ||
| music musical activity (singing or whistling etc.); "his music was his central interest" | ||
| chromatic - able to refract light without spectral color separation; "chromatic lens" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- chromatic (Adjective)
Relating to or characterised by hue. - chromatic (Adjective)
Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction. - chromatic (Adjective)
Regarding all twelve traditional Western pitch class es, regardless of temperament or intonation; Regarding entire sets of alternative pitch class systems.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary ð
- chromatic (a.)
Relating to color, or to colors. - chromatic (a.)
Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary ð
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chromatic
krÅ-matâ²ik, adj. relating to colours: coloured: (mus.) relating to notes in a melodic progression, which are raised or lowered by accidentals, without changing the key of the passage, and also to chords in which such notes occur.âns. ChrÅmâ²ate, a salt of chromic acid; ChrÅmatâ²ics, the science of colours.âv.t. ChrÅâ²matise, to impregnate with a chromate.âns. ChrÅmatogâ²raphy, a treatise on colours; ChrÅmatolâ²ogy, the science of colours, or a treatise thereon; ChrÅmatâ²ophore, one of the pigment-cells in animals: one of the granules in protoplasm: one of the brightly coloured bead-like bodies in the oral disc of certain actinias, &c.; ChrÅmatopâ²sia, coloured vision; ChrÅâ²matrope, an arrangement in a magic-lantern by which effects like those of the kaleidoscope are produced; ChrÅâ²matype, ChrÅâ²motype, a photographic process by which a coloured impression of a picture is obtained.âadj. relating to the chromatype.âns. ChrÅme, ChrÅâ²mium, a metal remarkable for the beautiful colours of its compounds.âadj. ChrÅmâ²ic.âns. ChrÅâ²mite, a mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; ChrÅâ²mo-lithâ²ograph, or merely ChrÅâ²mo, a lithograph printed in colours; ChrÅâ²molithogâ²raphy; ChrÅâ²mosphere, a layer of incandescent red gas surrounding the sun through which the light of the photosphere passesâalso ChrÅmatâ²osphere; ChrÅâ²mo-typogâ²raphy, typography in colours; ChrÅâ²mo-xyâ²lograph, a picture printed in colours from wooden blocks; ChrÅâ²mo-xylogâ²raphy.âChromatic scale, a scale proceeding by semitones; Chromic acid, an acid of chromium, of an orange-red colour, much used in dyeing and bleaching. [Gr. chrÅmatikosâchrÅma, colour.]
Wikipedia 
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A chromatic scale is a musical scale which uses every note as it goes up or down i.e. it goes up and down in semitones (half tones). To play a chromatic scale on the piano every note is played: both white and black notes (e.g. C, C sharp, D, D sharp, E, F etc). A chromatic scale can start on any note.
Meaning of the word âchromaticâ.
The word âchromaticâ comes from the Greek word âchromosâ meaning âcolorâ. Organists in the 16th and 17th centuries such as Sweelinck liked to write âChromatic Fantasiasâ. These were pieces based on tunes which were chromatic. In those days, because of the tuning systems used, not all the semitones were exactly the same size. Going up a chromatic scale would have been like walking up a staircase with steps which were slightly larger or smaller in depth. This made chromatic scales very interesting and âcolourfulâ which is why they were called âchromaticâ.
Chromatic harmony.
Chromatic harmony means harmony (chords) which use notes which do not belong to the key the music is in (they are not in the key signature). Although Bach in the 18th century used chromatic harmony it was the 19th century composers who used it more and more. Wagner wrote music which was very chromatic: there were lots of sharps and flats and it kept modulating to different key areas. The chord at the beginning of his opera "Tristan and Isolde" is so famous that it is known as the "Tristan chord". It is very chromatic. The music is full of tension because it leaves us wondering w -
band
Chromatic is an indie Dance ggroup formed in 2005. They are famous for the hit singes "Technicolor", "Strum da Guitar", "A Christmas Island" and more. They've released several and several EP's since 2005. They have 7 EP's, 1 full length studio album, and 1 Holiday album.
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