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Language: Old English
Origin: hiw

hue

 noun
     
Related topics: Painting and Drawing
hue [countable] literary
1 a colour or type of colour [↪ tint, shade]:
a golden hue
2 a type of opinion, belief etc
of every hue/of all hues (=of many kinds)
political opinions of every hue
WORD FOCUS: colour WORD FOCUS: colour
a particular kind of colour: shade, hint, hue
words for describing dark colours: dark, deep, rich
words for describing light colours: light, pale, soft, pastel
words for describing bright colours: bright, brilliant, vivid, garish disapproving, gaudy disapproving
having a lot of colours: colourful, multicoloured British English/multicolored American English

➔ See also colour
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