Monochrome Definition

mŏnə-krōm
noun
A painting, drawing, design, or photograph in black and white, or in shades of one color often with black or white.
Webster's New World
The art or process of making these.
Webster's New World
The state of being in a single color.
American Heritage
A black-and-white image, as in photography or on television.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
adjective
Of or having to do with a single color.
Webster's New World
Of or done in monochrome.
Webster's New World
Having only one colour.
Wiktionary

(photography) Representing colours with shades of gray.

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Other Word Forms of Monochrome

Noun

Singular:
monochrome
Plural:
monochromes

Origin of Monochrome

  • Medieval Latin monochrōma from feminine of Greek monokhrōmos of one color mono- mono- khrōma color

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek μονόχρωμος (monokhrōmos), from μόνος (monos, “one") + χρῶμα (khrōma, “color"); mono- +"Ž -chrome.

    From Wiktionary

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