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
Robert Bassler made groups of tall, chunky, chromatically luxurious cast-resin forms that bend light to visually bond together, like a space-age version of Constantin Brancusi’s “The Kiss.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024
During the night the air quality has chromatically shifted from an “unhealthy” red to a “very unhealthy” maroon.
From Slate • Sep. 18, 2023
Mother and daughter have exhibited several times together, most recently in Los Angeles, where a critic’s remark that their work was “compositionally diametric yet chromatically in sync” captured the creative tension between them.
From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2020
We see, too, why colours mixed deteriorate each other, which they do more—in many cases—by imperfectly neutralizing or subduing each other chromatically, than by any chemical action.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
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