Descriptive words (Color Terms)

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Sometimes there's not enough ways to describe the color yellow. For this, I like to use Color Terms most of which can be used when describing a complexion or eye color. 

Color Terms

Aeneous - shining bronze color

Albicant - whitish; becoming white

Albugineous - like the white of an eye or an egg; white-coloured

Amaranthine - immortal; undying; deep purple-red color

Argent - the heraldic color silver or white

Atrous - jet black

Aubergine - eggplant; a dark purple color

Aurulent - gold-colored

Azuline - Blue

Azure - light or sky blue

Badious - chestnut-coloured

Beige - light creamy white-brown

Brunneous - dark brown

Burnet - dark brown; dark woolen cloth

Caesious - bluish or greyish green

Cardinal - deep scarlet red color

Castaneous - chestnut-coloured

Castory - brown

Celadon - pale green

Celeste - sky blue

Cerulean - a mix of sky-blue; dark blue; and sea-green

Cesious - bluish-grey

Chartreuse - yellow-green color

Chlorochrous - green-coloured

Chrysochlorous - greenish-gold

Cinerious - ashen; ash-grey

Cinnabar - deep red or scarlet color

Citreous - lemon-coloured; lemony

Citrine - dark greenish-yellow

Claret - dark red-purple color resembling wine

Coccineous - bright red

Columbine - dove white

Coquelicot - brilliant poppy red

Corbeau - blackish green

Cramoisy- crimson

Cretaceous - whitish chalky color

Croceate - saffron-coloured

Cyaneous - sky blue

Eburnean - Ivory

Erythraean - reddish color

Ferruginous - of the color of rust

Filemot - dull brown like dead-leaves

Flammeous - flame-coloured

Flavescent - yellowish or turning yellow

Fuliginous - sooty; dusky; soot-colored; pertaining to soot

Fulvous - dull yellow; tawny

Fuscous - tawny brown

Gamboge - reddish-yellow color

Glaucous - sea-green; greyish-blue

Goldenrod - dark golden yellow

Greige - of a grey-beige color

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