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complementary colours

complementary colours is the plural of complementary colour.

Meaning of complementary colour

Noun

complementary colour (plural complementary colours)

  1. (UK) Either of two colours which, when mixed, produce a white or grey.
  2. A colour which is regarded as the opposite of another, so that the two colours together form a pleasing contrast.

Questions about complementary colours

What is complementary colours the plural of?
Complementary colours is the plural of complementary colour.

Words near complementary colours in the dictionary

  1. complementary antonym
  2. complementary antonyms
  3. complementary color
  4. complementary colors
  5. complementary colour
  6. complementary colours
  7. complementary distribution
  8. complementary distributions
  9. complementary DNA
  10. complementary function
  11. complementary functions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: complementary colours (page history and authors); complementary colour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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