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mocha

mocha

1 3.0
A dark brown color with a slight red or coffee tone
  • noun
  • /ˈmoʊkə/
translation icon : marrón moka
  • And then a little bit of mocha, which is this really beautiful chocolatey brown.
  • mocha color
  • mocha brown
  • dark mocha

I'm going to take the shade mocha into the crease.

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Examples

  • It's a very shiny kind of mocha, cool toned brown.

  • The artist used a rich mocha color for the background of the painting, creating a warm atmosphere.

  • Just a real nice peppermint mocha shirt.

  • We wear them in mocha and black, dark purple and fuchsia.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • So I'm using this shade Mocha and Chip as my transition shades.

  • And then I got Unreal as well, which is just really pretty, like a mocha colored gloss.

  • Our colours are peach, lime, cherry, mocha, almond and avocado.

  • The call goes out every half hour, echoing off the rust-colored sandstone cliffs and across the mocha waters of the Colorado River.

    Academic text (2009)
  • She took off her hair clip and shook out long strands of red-tinged mocha.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • He had on multicolored pants and a sparkling white shirt that contrasted well with his mocha-colored skin.

    Fiction book (1995)

Synonyms

brown
vsmocha
939 1.0

Having a medium to dark color like wood or tanned skin

is a darker, more specific variant with a slight reddish roasted-bean undertone
chocolate
vsmocha
31 1.0

A medium dark brown color like cocoa beans

is often darker and carries a small reddish roasted-bean hint
dark-brown
vsmocha
18 1.0

A deep brown color like wood or earth

adds a subtle reddish or roasted-bean hint to that deep richness
brownish
vsmocha
13 1.0

A colour that is a little brown

is a clear dark shade with only a small reddish roasted-bean hint
coffee
vsmocha
9 1.0

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

is darker and adds a slight reddish or roasted-bean undertone
reddish-brown
vsmocha
3 2.1

A brown color with a hint of red

is darker overall and has only a slight red tinge
chocolate-brown
vsmocha
2 2.7

A deep brown color like chocolate

adds a faint reddish or roasted-bean tone to that deep shade
deep brown
vsmocha
2 1.0

A dark shade of brown like chocolate

is similar but specifically includes a small reddish roasted-bean undertone
red-brown
vsmocha
1 1.0

A brown color with a touch of red

is generally darker and contains a milder red hint
1 1.8

Having a deep brown color like dark chocolate

leans more toward a slight reddish or roasted-bean undertone than neutral depth
chestnut-brown
vsmocha
1 2.9

A brown color with a little red that often appears in hair or feathers

is darker and more drinklike while keeping only a faint red hint
warm brown
vsmocha
1 1.7

A brown colour with red or yellow tones that looks cosy

is darker and tilts more toward reddish roasted-bean undertones
caramel brown
vsmocha
2.6

A medium to dark brown color like caramel

is deeper and shifts toward a slight reddish roasted-bean hint rather than golden

Antonyms

291 1.0

Has very light color and often looks sick or afraid

90 1.0

Pale in colour or clear in sound

Compounds

mocha coffee
  • Archaic
3.4

A dark, strong coffee made from beans grown in Yemen

How Dark

mocha
1 3.0
chocolate
31 1.0
brown
939 1.0
tan
40 1.0

Surface Forms

mocha singular
mochas plural

Etymology

Mocha comes from the name of a Yemeni port, Mocha, famous for coffee beans that looked and tasted a little like dark chocolate, so people began to call that brown color by the same name. So mocha as a color means a dark brown like 'coffee' or 'chocolate'.