umber

1. 1.

   of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of umber

plural

umbers·

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 umber

What does umber mean?

umber means "an earth pigment". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in umber?

umber has 2 syllables: um-ber. The stress falls on "um".

What is another word for umber?

Close synonyms include chocolate, coffee, deep brown, burnt umber. 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 umber a common word?

umber is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.