complementary colour

British  

noun

1. one of any pair of colours, such as yellow and blue, that give white or grey when mixed in the correct proportions

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Example Sentences

Since the main character is red, I chose green – the complementary colour – for the pigs, who have stolen the birds’ eggs and are sheltering in the structures.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2016

The golden tint of the electric lights seems to give a complementary colour to the air in the early evening.—Essay on London.

From Poems of To-Day: an Anthology by Various

Where these lines cut the circumference is placed the complementary colour.

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.

What is the complementary colour of blue, grey, and orange?

From Modern Painting by Moore, George (George Augustus)

I had never heard of a complementary colour in my life, and I was just racking my brains to think what to say, when my eyes happened to light on Miss Smith’s carrots.

From The Fortunes of the Farrells by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.