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technicolor

UK/ˈtɛk.nɪˌkʌl.ə(ɹ)/

technicolor adjective: extremely or excessively colourful.

Adjective (1)

technicolor (not comparable)

  1. (US) Extremely or excessively colourful.
    • I can stand the sight of worms / And look at microscopic germs / But technicolor pachyderms / Is really too much for me1941, “Pink Elephants on Parade”, in Ned Washington (lyrics), Oliver Wallace (music), Dumbo
    • Technicolour dreams are all I see / Technicolour dreams of you and me1968, Anthony King, “Technicolour Dreams”, in Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo, performed by Status Quo
  2. Describing something in a technicolor model, a model that is similar to the Standard Model but lacks a scalar Higgs field.

Noun (1)

technicolor (plural technicolors)

  1. (US) A process of colour cinematography using synchronised monochrome films, each of a different colour, to produce a colour print.
  2. (informal) Vivid colour.
  3. A collection of theories based on quantum chromodynamics

Noun (2) capitalized: Technicolor

Technicolor (uncountable)

  1. A colour process for motion pictures, developed and used in the twentieth century and known for its hyperrealistic, saturated levels of colour.
    • filmed in Technicolor [collocation in movie credits]

Adjective (2) capitalized: Technicolor

Technicolor (not comparable)

  1. Using the Technicolor process.
    • It was his opinion that 1946's Do You Love Me, a Technicolor musical, would go down much better with 'industrial audiences' than the 'better class' of viewer.

technicolor meaning in Bengali

technicolor in Bengali

অত্যন্ত, অতিরিক্তভাবে রঙিন, একটি রঙিন সিনেমাটোগ্রাফি প্রক্রিয়া, উজ্জ্বল রঙ

Examples of technicolor in a sentence

  • On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene / But yours was kitchen clean / Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home1976, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, “Kid Charlemagne”, in The Royal Scam, performed by Steely Dan:
  • It's so hard to be a technicolor girl in an earth-tone world.2007 May 2, “Letters”, in New York Times:

Forms of technicolor

Adjective
alternative UKtechnicolour
Noun
pluraltechnicolors

Origin of technicolor

English technicolor From Technicolor.

Blend of technology + color. A trademark (1916), in reference to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where two of its three developers met.

Words formed from technicolor

Phrases with technicolor

Questions about technicolor

What does technicolor mean?
Technicolor means extremely or excessively colourful.
What is technicolor in Bengali?
Technicolor in Bengali is অত্যন্ত, অতিরিক্তভাবে রঙিন, একটি রঙিন সিনেমাটোগ্রাফি প্রক্রিয়া. See Technicolor meaning in Bengali.
How do you use technicolor in a sentence?
On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene / But yours was kitchen clean / Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home
What part of speech is technicolor?
Technicolor can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce technicolor?
Technicolor is pronounced /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkʌl.ə(ɹ)/ (UK).

Words near technicolor in the dictionary

  1. technicks
  2. technicological
  3. technicologically
  4. technicologies
  5. technicology
  6. technicolor
  7. Technicolor yawn
  8. Technicolor yawns
  9. technicolored
  10. technicolors
  11. technicolour

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Adapted from Wiktionary: technicolor (page history and authors); Technicolor (page history and authors); technicolor (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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