khaki
5 definitions found
khaki - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Khaki \Kha"ki\, n.
Any kind of khaki cloth; hence, a uniform of khaki or,
rarely, a soldier clad in khaki. In the United States and
British armies khaki or cloth of a very similar color is
almost exclusively used for service in the field.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Khaki \Kha"ki\ (k[aum]"k[-e]), a. [Hind. kh[=a]k[imac], lit.,
dusty, dust-colored, fr. Per. kh[=a]k dust.]
Of a dull brownish yellow, or drab color; -- applied to
cloth, originally to a stout brownish cotton cloth, used in
making uniforms in the Anglo-Indian army.
Note: In the United States service the summer uniform of
cotton is officially designated khaki; the winter
uniform of wool, olive drab.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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]
khaki - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
khaki
adj 1: of a yellowish brown color
n 1: a sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used
especially for military uniforms
khaki - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "khaki":
beige, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, chocolate,
cinnamon, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, drab, dun,
dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, fawn, fawn-colored, fuscous, grege,
hazel, lurid, nut-brown, olive-brown, olive-drab, seal, seal-brown,
sepia, snuff-colored, sorrel, tan, taupe, tawny, toast,
toast-brown, umber, umber-colored, walnut, walnut-brown,
yellowish-brown
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