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chromatic
adjective
- of color or having color or colors
- highly colored
- Biol. readily stained
- Music
- using or progressing by semitones: a chromatic scale
- producing all the tones of such a scale: a chromatic instrument
- using tones not in the key of a work: chromatic harmony
noun
Music a tone modified by an accidental
Related Forms:
- chromatically adverb
- chromaticism noun
See chromatic in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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