Skip to main content
chromatically

chromatically

1 6.5
In a way that uses color to show a pattern or order
  • adverb
  • /krəˈmætɪkli/
: cromáticamente
  • The flowers in the garden are chromatically arranged to create a stunning visual effect.

Examples

  • One simple pattern consists of singing vowels up a whole step, then back to the original note, and then down and back up a half step; repeat a number of times by moving the pattern upward or downward chromatically.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Both of the works are smaller in scale than the others, both are vertical and both have a lighter theme despite being chromatically darker.

  • The way the name of the author is presented is chromatically unostentatious, if compared to the book title.

    Academic text (2017)
  • So this lens is not chromatically corrected.

  • Well, there are ways to play into the chord tones chromatically with a passing tone.

  • So the right hand plays a bunch of triads and they start ascending chromatically and they they ascend chromatically on the OP beats.

  • The 5 fixes that, if anything, extend just a smidgen to the warm side, but display imagery that's much more chromatically neutral than before.

    Blog text (12)
  • Depending on the conversion (calibration of the focus sensor), the lens used may not be chromatically corrected for infrared light.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Through numerous field excursions into the Grand Canyon—from the rim, along trails, and down the river—I can attest that the Colorado River is chromatically dynamic.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The chromatically charged and visually assertive black-and-white design is really hers and not the knight's because the eye has already been trained by exposure to other cantigas to read fields of high-energy static as ontologically empowered.

    Academic text (1993)

How Colorful

vividly
48 3.4
colorfully
  • US
2 2.4
chromatically
1 6.5
neutrally
3 3.6

Surface Forms

chromatically positive

Morphology

chromatically = chromatic (transparent) = chromatic + ally

Standard adverbial formation from the adjective 'chromatic' to form an adverb meaning 'in a way that relates to color'.

Etymology

Chromatically comes from the Greek root chrom- meaning 'color', the same part you find in chrome and monochrome. So, to do something chromatically is to do it 'in a way that relates to color', for example arranging tiles from light to dark.