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

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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After watching Antoine Fuqua’s “Emancipation,” a period piece about slavery starring Will Smith, the director decided on a desaturated look for the film that would reflect the emotional state of the kids’ reality.

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Bright and bloody, sandblasted and sunworn, it has the visual crispness of the first and doesn’t bear the strange desaturated look of some of the director’s recent work.

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