To the chagrin of many Western composers, steel drums, or steelpans, tend not to be fully chromatic.
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Chromatic
/kɹəˈmæt.ɪk/
Synonyms for "chromatic" (52 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Noun(8 words)
color basedcolor cardscolor featurecolor motifcolor motif studycolor signalcolor symbolcolor transformation biology
Adjective(2 words)
color dispersioncolor related
Strong matches (15)
Adjective(6 words)
Noun(2 words)
colorimetric reagent kitgradient
Related words (26)
many-coloredmatchingmedleymonochromaticmonochromemonochromicmotleyparti-coloredpigmentarypolychromaticprismaticrainbowsemitonicspectraltinctorialtingenttonaltonictoningvariegated
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Adjective(3 words)
non diatonicsemitone basedwavelength dependent
Verb(1 words)
showed color change
Noun(1 words)
showing color change
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
6 entriesmusical propertyoptical propertyperceptual attributephysical propertypitch relationvisual property
More specific
8 entriesaxial colorchromatic aberrationchromatic scalecolorimetricenharmonic modulationlateral colornon diatonic chordspectral
Collocations
5 entrieschromatic aberrationchromatic dispersionchromatic palettechromatic scalechromaticity diagram
Inflections
2 entriesmore chromaticmost chromatic
Derivations
4 entriesAntonyms
2 entriessimilar
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Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
The chromatic thirds in this composition pose a significant technical challenge for the performer.
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Within two weeks he was playing complete songs and convinced his dad to buy him a chromatic harmonica — one with sharps and flats.
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All the intervals of the scale that are a whole tone (step) distant from each other may be divided into half tones, (small steps), forming an entire scale of small intervals, (half tones), called the Chromatic Scale. […] All the tones (steps) of the scale being thus divided, either by means of the sharp or flat, we shall have for our Chromatic Scale thirteen intervals, of a half tone (small step) each.
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