Adjectives for Colors

Tom · September 9, 2006, 6:28am

Hi

I would like to know two adjectives, apparently opposite in nature, for the noun color.

1- For colours which come off easily,I mean, which are not strong:---------------colors.

And, of course the opposite. The colors which hardly come off: ------------------colors.

Tom

Tamara · September 9, 2006, 6:43am

hardly come off?

A friend of mine is a designer/architect; they use the term ‘lasting colour’.

Yankee · September 9, 2006, 6:50am

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You can talk about color as being fast which means the color is resistant to destruction or fading…

Is that what you mean, Tom?

Amy

Tamara · September 9, 2006, 6:57am

Amy, would fading dye be the opposite in this case?

Tom · September 9, 2006, 9:33am

Yes, That what was I wanted! What about the opposite?

Tom

Yankee · September 9, 2006, 10:00am

Hi Tom

The best I can do is:
colo(u)rfast / non-colo(u)rfast
permanent / non-permanent

Another synonym for colorfast is indelible and the opposite would be delible. However, this would usually be used if you are talking about ink rather than dye.

Amy