chromatically
Americanadverb
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Music. in a way that relates to or makes use of a chromatic scale.
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in a way that relates to color.
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Venetian painting of the Renaissance is richly, radiantly colored, mainly because it is oil-based, unlike the Florentines’ water-based tempera, which yields a more chromatically subdued result.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
During the night the air quality has chromatically shifted from an “unhealthy” red to a “very unhealthy” maroon.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2023
Retta’s ever-elegant Donna Meagle situates herself in front of a wall of chromatically arranged sneakers.
From The Guardian ● May 1, 2020
The awful ruin of war likewise thrums within Gorky's agitated array of spiky, organic, chromatically explosive forms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2014
The sixth or seventh degrees may be chromatically altered with only one note intervening.
From A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons by Friedrich Johann Lehmann
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