food colouring

Questions about food colouring

What is another word for food colouring?

It depends which food colouring you mean. In the sense “a digestible substance used to give color to food”, the synonyms are coloring, colouring, food coloring, food color, food colour. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of food colouring?

WordNet records no antonym for food colouring. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for food colouring come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of food colouring

• Full entry for food colouringAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for food colouringWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.