colorise

Other forms of colorise

past tense

colorised·

present participle

colorising·

third person

colorises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about colorise

What does colorise mean?

colorise means "add color to".

How many syllables are in colorise?

colorise has 3 syllables: co-lo-rise. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for colorise?

Close synonyms include color, colorize, colourise, colourize, colour. 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 colorise a common word?

colorise 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.