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Definition of "coloristic" [coloristic]

  • Of, pertaining to, or focused on coloring or an enhanced use of colour (adjective)

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Use "coloristic" in a sentence
  • "He also knocked off the considerable technical challenges in the Britten work, as well as in the vividly coloristic Five Pieces on Folk Themes by Georgian composer Sulkhan Tsintsadze."
  • "Surrounding these new works were solid interpretations of Liszt, Debussy and Granados ripe with coloristic variety and prodigious technical execution."
  • "The wine-red field appears to bring intense coloristic pressure to bear on the central motif; and this pressure seems both to account for its ellipsoid shape as well as for its suspension at the heart of the field."