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chocolate-colored

chocolate-colored

1 1.8
Having a deep brown color like dark chocolate
  • adjective
  • /ˈtʃɔkəˌlɛt ˈkʌlərd/
translation icon : color chocolate
  • The chocolate-colored dog wagged its tail happily as it played in the park.
  • chocolate-colored walls
  • chocolate-colored water

Examples

  • Dragon's Milk is aged in oak barrels, giving this dark chocolate-colored imperial stout a nice bourbon kick.

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  • The chocolate-colored walls in the living room created a cozy and inviting atmosphere.

  • Standing next to the boy was a man with bright brown eyes and chocolate-colored skin.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Remember last year when I wrote about a new chocolate-colored Labrador puppy I was raising?

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  • The flatbed was loaded with fat, chocolate-colored rolls a couple of meters long.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • By 2, a thick mop of chocolate-colored coils clustered around my little head.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • But the old wooden bar still ran along one side of the room, chocolate-colored wood chipped and worn over the years into a strange abstract sculpture.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • I loved my new friends, the white-skinned, supple Claude, and the chocolate-colored, streamlined Bao.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • There was a small chocolate-colored refrigerator in the corner of the tack room where Otis, my former stallion manager, used to keep candy bars and beer.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Going along with the sugary Valentine's Day theme, we're making this offer for all caramel, toffee, golden, and chocolate-colored Chihuahuas and Chihuahua mixes.

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Synonyms

brown
vschocolate-colored
939 1.0

Having a medium to dark color like wood or tanned skin

is a specific deep warm shade darker and richer in tone
chocolate
vschocolate-colored
31 1.0

A medium dark brown color like cocoa beans

is deeper and more specifically like dark confection
dark-brown
vschocolate-colored
18 1.0

A deep brown color like wood or earth

is more specific to dark confection tones rather than wood hues
brownish
vschocolate-colored
13 1.0

A colour that is a little brown

is a full deep brown rather than just a slight tint
coffee
vschocolate-colored
9 1.0

A medium to dark brown color like roasted beans used for a hot drink

is deeper and less like the bean tone
chocolate-brown
vschocolate-colored
2 2.7

A deep brown color like chocolate

is the same meaning but a different word form
deep brown
vschocolate-colored
2 1.0

A dark shade of brown like chocolate

is narrower, specifying the deep dark confection shade
mocha
vschocolate-colored
1 3.0

A dark brown color with a slight red or coffee tone

is more purely deep brown without a red hint
chocolatey
vschocolate-colored
1 3.3

Having a rich brown color like chocolate

focuses on an exact deep color rather than general quality
Vandyke brown
vschocolate-colored
  • Specialized
8.7

A dark reddish brown color used in painting and art

is the same depth but less technical and artistic
nutbrown
vschocolate-colored
4.5

A warm brown color like the shell of a nut

is darker and richer toward the dark confection tone
brunneous
vschocolate-colored
  • Archaic
9.9

Brown in color

is everyday language for the same deep confection shade

Antonyms

291 1.0

Has very light color and often looks sick or afraid

12 2.9

Having very little or no color

How Brown

dark-brown
18 1.0
chocolate-colored
1 1.8
brown
939 1.0
light brown
16 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

chocolate-colored = chocolate + colored (transparent) = chocolate + color + ed

The adjective is formed by directly combining 'chocolate' with 'colored' to mean 'having the color of chocolate', a straightforward, guessable composition.

Etymology

Chocolate-colored begins with chocolate, the dark sweet food whose name came from a Mexican word for a cocoa drink, and the ending -colored means 'having the color of'. So chocolate-colored simply means 'the color of dark chocolate', a deep warm brown you can remember by picturing a dark chocolate bar.