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COMPLEMENTARY COLOR
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I. (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)
Example:
yellow and blue are complementaries
Synonyms:
complementary; complementary color
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("complementary color" is a kind of...):
chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)