chartreuse
4 definitions found
chartreuse - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Chartreuse \Char`treuse"\, n. [F.]
1. A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse,
mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble,
France.
[1913 Webster]
2. An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; --
made at La Grande Chartreuse.
[1913 Webster]
colorful \colorful\ adj.
1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot
; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing;
prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled
]
Syn: colourful.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious;
flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty
; picturesque]
[WordNet 1.5]
3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown
; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown
; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden;
azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome
; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue
; blushful, blush-colored, rosy
; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy;
brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow
; caramel, caramel brown; carnation;
chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike
; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green
; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac
; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
; mousy, mouse-colored;
ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive;
orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish;
purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red;
rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown
; sorrel, brownish-orange
; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured
; tan; tangerine;
tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red
; yellow, yellowish;
yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue)
; coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress
; hazel; honey, honey-colored
; hued(postnominal); magenta;
maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green;
sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark,
light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
[WordNet 1.5]
chartreuse - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
chartreuse
adj 1: of something having the yellowish green color of
Chartreuse liqueur
n 1: aromatic green or yellow liqueur flavored with orange peel
and hyssop and peppermint oils; made at monastery near
Grenoble, France
2: a shade of green tinged with yellow [syn: yellow green,
yellowish green, chartreuse, Paris green, pea green]
chartreuse - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "chartreuse":
aestival, beryl-green, berylline, blue-green, bluish-green,
chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, emerald,
foliaged, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, grassy, green,
green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue,
greenish-yellow, greensick, holly, ivy, ivy-green, leafy, leaved,
olivaceous, olive, olive-green, porraceous, smaragdine, springlike,
summerlike, summery, verdant, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert,
virescent, yellowish-green
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