spectral colour vs complementary color

complementary color vs spectral colour

spectral colour and complementary color both are nouns.

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

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

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

spectral 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 spectral colour and complementary color

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