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Obscure Color Words
- albicant: whitish; becoming white
- amaranthine: immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour
- aubergine: eggplant; a dark purple colour
- azure: light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue
- celadon: pale green; pale green glazed pottery
- cerulean: sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green
- chartreuse: yellow-green colour
- cinnabar: red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour
- citrine: dark greenish-yellow
- eburnean: of or like ivory; ivory-coloured
- erythraean: reddish colour
- flavescent: yellowish or turning yellow
- greige: of a grey-beige colour
- haematic: blood coloured
- heliotrope: purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror
- hoary: pale silver-grey colour; grey with age
- isabelline: greyish yellow
- jacinthe: orange colour
- kermes: brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects
- lovat: grey-green; blue-green
- madder: red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour
- mauve: light bluish purple
- mazarine: rich blue or reddish-blue colour
- russet: reddish brown
- sable: black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry
- saffron: orange-yellow
- sarcoline: flesh-coloured
- smaragdine: emerald green
- tilleul: pale yellowish-green
- titian: red-gold, reddish brown
- vermilion: bright red
- virid: green
- viridian: chrome green
- xanthic: yellow
- zinnober: chrome green
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When I call a word beautiful, sometimes it refers to the meaning behind the word. Sometimes it refers to how the word sounds as it rolls over the tongue.
Beautiful Words (O)
When I call a word beautiful, sometimes it refers to the meaning behind the word. Sometimes it refers to how the word sounds as it rolls over the tongue. Oasis: (n) fertile, vibrant, or green spot in a desert or wasteland Oblivion: (n) condition or quality of being completely forgotten, void, forgetfulness Obsequious: (adj) fawning, sycophantic, servile Obsidian: (n) volcanic glass of a black shade Ocelot: (n) undomesticated cat, like a small leopard Odalisque: (n) female servant, female servant in a harem Oeillade: (n) an amorous glance, ogle Oleander: (n) type of flower Opacity: (n) opaqueness, obscurity, impenetrability Opalescent: (adj) milky and iridescent, shimmering with the colors of an opal Opaque: (adj/n) impenetrable to light, not reflecting light, difficult to explain or understand Ophidian: (adj) snake-like, like, shaped like, or relating to snakes Opulence: (n) wealth, affluence, great abundance, profusion, pretentiousness Opusculum: (n) minor work of literature Orchestra: (n) large group of musicians with a variety of instruments Oscillate: (v) to swing in an uninterrupted motion Ossuary: (n) place, container or receptacle for holding the bones of the dead Otiose: (adj) indolent, lazy, serving no useful purpose, futile, being a leisure Oubliette: (n) dungeon with only opening at the top |