desaturated

[dee-sach-uh-rey-tid]

adjective

1. (of a color) formed by mixing a color of the spectrum with white.

Word History and Origins

Origin of desaturated¹

First recorded in 1910–15; de- + saturate + -ed ²

Example Sentences

John Slattery, as the colonel in charge of the prison, throws some sauce on his snappy patter that harks back to old movies from the 1940s, but the film has been color-corrected into a dull, desaturated gray.

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“In the beginning we have really shiny, saturated colors, but in her process of discovering the reality of existence, the colors become more desaturated, less bright.”

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He also weaves in fragments from past screen adaptations of Orwell’s titles, including the 1954 animated “Animal Farm” and Michael Radford’s stark, desaturated adaptation of “Nineteen Eighty-Four” starring John Hurt, cross-cutting them with current images of drone wars, surveillance and algorithmic control.

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Lawrence is sparing in his style, the image desaturated like a vintage photograph, locating this fable in an unspecified future.

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Up till now, the movie, which novelist Shattuck adapted into a script himself, has only hinted at the kinetic intimacy between like-minded souls, with Hermanus’ emotionally staid scenes too texture-free under Alexander Dynan’s desaturated cinematography.

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