colorific

[ kuhl-uh-rif-ik ]

adjective

1. producing or imparting color.
2. pertaining to color.

colorific

/ ˌkʌləˈrɪfɪk /

adjective

1. producing, imparting, or relating to colour

Word History and Origins

Origin of colorific¹

First recorded in 1670–80; color + -i- + -fic

Example Sentences

"Colorific! We Make an Art Rainbow" was a fun concept for a summer show.

From Los Angeles Times

The art team’s apparently going for a look somewhere between the austere geometric angularity of a game like Mirror’s Edge and the saturation-cranked colorific vibrance of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft.

From Time

Photograph: Mark Richards/Contact Press/Colorific In the first weeks of 2000 the founders of Napster were in their office above a bank in San Mateo, California, considering dizzying numbers.

From The Guardian

The intermediate spectrum colours between the green and the violet rays selected when slightly diluted are imitated by mixing these rays together in different proportions, and similarly those lying between the red and the green by mixing together these rays in different proportions—and there is some ray present in the spectrum which, when very slightly diluted with white light, has the same colorific effect on the eye as the mixtures of the pairs v and b, and G and R, in any proportions whatever.

From Project Gutenberg

We have endeavored by close examination to ascertain something of the laws producing this remarkable effect; but it is not easy at present to perceive the relations between the colorific action of light and the associated chemical influence.

From Project Gutenberg