chromatic

Questions about chromatic

What does chromatic mean?

chromatic means "able to refract light without spectral color separation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chromatic?

chromatic has 3 syllables: chro-ma-tic. The stress falls on "ma".

What is the opposite of chromatic?

The recorded antonyms are diatonic, achromatic.

Is chromatic a common word?

chromatic 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.