basic colour

1. 1.

   a dye that is considered to be a base because the chromophore is part of a positive ion

   Synonymsbasic dyebasic color

   Broaderdye

Questions about basic colour

What does basic colour mean?

basic colour means "a dye that is considered to be a base because the chromophore is part of a positive ion".

What is another word for basic colour?

Close synonyms include basic dye, basic color. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is basic colour a common word?

basic colour is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.