Meaning

2 senses

  1. To paint or dye with multiple colours.

  2. To divide (a dye etc.) into multiple colours.

More definitions
  • color with many colors; make polychrome

Examples

1 sentences

  1. The book is polychrome.

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Origin

From poly- + -chrome.

From poly- + -chrome.

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Forms

polychromes, polychroming, polychromed, polychromed
Base formpolychrome · to polychrome
3rd person singularpolychromes
Present participlepolychroming
Past simplepolychromed
Past participlepolychromed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypolychrome
he, she, itpolychromes

Past simpleLesson

all personspolychromed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave polychromed
he, she, ithas polychromed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill polychrome

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • color with many colors; make polychrome:polychromizepolychromise

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
polypolyamorouspolyculepolyesterpolyethylene

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