'Monochrome' definitions:
Definition of 'monochrome'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having or appearing to have only one color [syn: monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, monochromous]
noun
Painting done in a range of tones of a single color
noun
A black-and-white photograph or slide [syn: black and white, monochrome]
Definition of 'Monochrome'
From: GCIDE
- Monochrome \Mon"o*chrome\, n. [Gr. ? of one color; mo`nos single + ? color: cf. F. monochrome.] A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'monochrome'
From: GCIDE
- Monochromic \Mon`o*chro"mic\, a. Made, or done, with a single color; as, a monochromic picture. Called also, monochromatic and monochrome. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Definition of 'monochrome'
From: GCIDE
- black-and-white \black-and-white\, black and white \black and white\adj. (Photography, Imaging; Printing) depicted only in black and white colors, or in shades of gray; also called monochromatic and monochrome; -- of images. Opposite of color or in color, and contrasting with polychrome technicolor three-color; as, a black-and-white TV; black-and-white film; the movie "Schindler's List" was shot in black and white.
- Syn: black and white, monochromatic, monochrome. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'monochrome'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acrylic painting,
- chromatic,
- chromatic circle,
- chromatic spectrum,
- chromaticity diagram,
- cold,
- color circle,
- color cycle,
- color index,
- color mixture curve,
- color solid,
- color spectrum,
- color system,
- color triangle,
- colorific,
- coloring,
- complementary color,
- cool,
- demitint,
- dichromatic,
- encaustic cerography,
- encaustic painting,
- finger painting,
- flower painting,
- freehand,
- fresco painting,
- full color,
- fundamental colors,
- genre painting,
- glowing,
- gouache,
- graphic,
- grisaille,
- half tint,
- halftone,
- harmonious,
- hue cycle,
- illumination,
- illustration,
- impasto,
- many-colored,
- matching,
- Maxwell triangle,
- medley,
- metamer,
- monochromatic,
- monochromic,
- motley,
- Munsell scale,
- mural painting,
- oil painting,
- painting,
- painty,
- parti-colored,
- pastose,
- photographic,
- pictorial,
- picturable,
- pictural,
- picturesque,
- picturization,
- pigmentary,
- polychromatic,
- polychrome,
- portraiture,
- poster painting,
- primary,
- primary color,
- prismatic,
- pure color,
- rainbow,
- scenographic,
- scumbled,
- secondary,
- secondary color,
- solar spectrum,
- spectral,
- spectral color,
- spectrum,
- spectrum color,
- tertiary,
- tertiary color,
- the brush,
- tinctorial,
- tingent,
- toning,
- variegated,
- warm,
- wash,
- wash drawing