monochrome
Definitions
Using or showing only one color, or only black, white, and grey
单色的；黑白的
An image or artwork in black and white or in shades of a single color
单色画；黑白图像
Root Breakdown
Root-derivedmono- (one) + -chrome (Greek chrōma, 'color') = 'one color.' In everyday use it usually means black-and-white photography or film, but strictly it covers any single-hue image — a picture done entirely in shades of one color. Same chrōma root as chromatic and Kodachrome.
Root chrom still carries 5 more wordsCommon Collocations
- 1.shoot in monochrome用黑白拍摄
- 2.monochrome image单色图像
- 3.monochrome palette单色调色板
- 4.stark monochrome鲜明的黑白
Example Sentences
- 1.
The photographer prefers shooting in monochrome.
- 2.
The room was decorated in stylish monochrome.
- 3.
Early television broadcasts were all monochrome.
Easily Confused
monochrome vs black-and-white — black-and-white means strictly black, white, and greys (a classic film). monochrome is broader: it means any single hue, so an image entirely in shades of blue is monochrome but not black-and-white. All black-and-white is monochrome; not all monochrome is black-and-white.