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
Origin:
LL chromaticus < Gr chrōmatikos, suited for color: see chroma & -atic
noun
Music a tone modified by an accidental