complementary color

1. 1.

   either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments)

   “yellow and blue are complementaries”

   Synonymscomplementary

   Broaderchromatic color

Questions about complementary color

What does complementary color mean?

complementary color means "either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments)".

What is another word for complementary color?

Close synonyms include complementary. 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 complementary color a common word?

complementary color 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.