natural haircolor
- noun
- US
:
color de cabello natural
- She wanted to return to her natural haircolor after years of experimenting with blond and red shades.
Examples
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The stylist matched the wig to the client's natural haircolor for a seamless look.
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I love my natural haircolor after letting it grow out.
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Many people can't remember their natural haircolor after so many dye jobs.
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Her natural haircolor is a beautiful shade of chestnut.
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Her natural haircolor is a beautiful shade of chestnut.
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She wanted to return to her natural haircolor after years of experimenting with blond and red shades.
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Many people can't remember their natural haircolor after so many dye jobs.
Antonyms
How Dark
∞
1.0
2
1.0
939
1.0
- US
16
1.0
1
1.0
1
4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
natural + haircolor
The meaning 'the original, undyed color of a person's hair' is directly and transparently built from 'natural' (not artificial) modifying 'hair' + 'color' (the color of hair); even though 'haircolor' as one token is not listed, its components are clear. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows straightforward adjective + noun semantics, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Natural haircolor comes from the simple picture of hair growing from your head that has not been dyed: natural means not changed and haircolor is the color of your hair, so it points to the color you have before any dye. That's why it means 'the original, undyed color of a person's hair'.