chromatic colour vs complementary color

complementary color vs chromatic colour

chromatic colour and complementary color both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chromatic colour	Yes	No	No	No
complementary color	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, complementary color is a hyponym of chromatic colour; that is, complementary color is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than chromatic colour:

chromatic colour: a color that has hue
complementary color: either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments)

Other hyponyms of chromatic colour include red, redness, orange, orangeness, salmon, yellow, yellowness, blond, blonde, green, greenness, viridity, blue, blueness, purple, purpleness, pink, brown, brownness, olive, pastel, complementary.

chromatic colour (noun)	complementary color (noun)
a color that has hue	either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments)

Difference between chromatic colour and complementary color

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