Definitions for colorist

colorist col·or·ist

Spelling: [kuhl-er-ist]
IPA: /ˈkʌl ər ɪst/

Colorist is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 274 anagrams from letters in colorist (ciloorst).

Definitions for colorist

noun

  1. a person who uses color skillfully.
  2. a painter who emphasizes color relationships in a work of art.
  3. a person who colors photographs.
  4. a hairdresser who is skilled in coloring or tinting hair.
  5. a musical performer or composer who is skilled in bringing musical color.

Origin of colorist

1680-90; color + -ist; compare French coloriste

Examples for colorist

On the contrary, to a colorist the first question about everything is its color.

A painter and a colorist, 52 in this book he displays his genius as an etcher.

Whatever Bartlemy might prove as a colorist, he unmistakably could draw.

Note how supreme a colorist has been at work on the High Priest's cope!

His mother, Cristiane, a colorist at a hair salon, was just 15.

Then it went to the colorist, who in turn illuminated, or painted, the drawing.

The latter is simply a colorist: the one maps, the other paints.

That is an instance as good as can be found of what the colorist has to do in this world.

The colorist, it is true, does not produce or judge of color by rule.

To the colorist the combinations here suggested are full of inspiration.

Word Value for colorist
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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