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Color:
Concrete


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Colors with the same hue:
Misty Teal
Light Aqua
Waterspout
Drizzle
Nearby colors:
Washed-Out Teal
Luminous Silver
Icy Teal
Steel teal
Cadet blue
River Teal
Chilly Teal
Soothing Teal
Tranquil Aqua
Crystal
Serene Aqua
Powder blue
Arctic Blue
Dreamy Teal
Dimmed Teal
Digital Teal
Serene Teal
Ocean Teal
Words evoked by this color:
manmade,  askance,  pew,  griswold,  nuances,  shamble,  forgotten,  neglected,  slipshod,  disheveled,  pewter,  despised,  loathe,  muffle,  afterthought,  unsung,  slackened,  embittered,  displeasure,  cramped,  unwelcome,  turbulence,  impend,  tainted,  sordid,  chastened,  unacceptable,  silenced,  chasten,  plaint,  inarticulate,  low-key,  subdued,  subduing,  subdue,  disarmed,  unsaid,  unspoken,  indirect,  humbling,  wretched,  unwholesome,  worsening,  stringency,  bilge,  penury,  choked,  destitution,  unsustainable,  inhospitable
Literary analysis:
One notable literary use of “concrete” as a color appears in the observation that “Poetry differs from prose in the concrete colors of its diction” [1]. Here the term transcends its physical association with building material to evoke a rich, tangible quality in language—suggesting that poetry, unlike prose, is marked by vivid, specific hues that give its words a palpable texture. This metaphorical employment of “concrete” transforms an otherwise mundane shade into a symbol of clarity and substance, grounding abstract concepts in a perceptible reality that resonates with the reader’s sensory experience.
  1. Poetry differs from prose in the concrete colors of its diction.
    — from Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ezra Pound


Colors associated with the word:
Gray 
Charcoal
Stone
Pewter
Graphite
Smoke
Flint
Cement
Silver 
Gunmetal
Lead
Cloud
Fossil
Cobblestone
Oyster
Words with similar colors:
aggregate,  mortar,  impasse,  gravel,  cement,  flint,  sisyphean,  petrify,  tombstone,  cemented,  cementing,  cementum,  gravelly,  caveat,  seal,  dilemma,  bleak,  doubt,  elephant,  reproach


This tab, the new OneLook "color thesaurus", is a work in progress. It draws from a data set of more than 2000 color names gathered from sources around the Web, and an analysis of how they are referenced in English texts. Some words, like "peach", function as both a color name and an object; when you do a search for words like these, you will see both of the above sections.



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