watercolour

1. 1.

   paint with watercolors

   Synonymswatercolor

   Broaderpaint

   art

Other forms of watercolour

plural

watercolours·

past tense

watercoloured·

present participle

watercolouring·

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 watercolour

What does watercolour mean?

watercolour means "water-soluble pigment". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in watercolour?

watercolour has 4 syllables: wa-ter-co-lour. The stress falls on "ter".

What is another word for watercolour?

Close synonyms include watercolor, water-color, water-colour, watercolor, water-color. 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 watercolour a common word?

watercolour 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.