colouring material

1. 1.

   any material used for its color

   “she used a different color for the trim”

   Synonymscoloring materialcolorcolour

   Broadermaterial

   Narrowerpaintindicatormordantdyetincturehematochromepigmentstain

Questions about colouring material

What does colouring material mean?

colouring material means "any material used for its color".

What is another word for colouring material?

Close synonyms include coloring material, color, 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 colouring material a common word?

colouring material 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.