as in solid
having or consisting of a single color
an artist who produces monochrome pencil drawings
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Recent Examples of monochrome
Julia Teti, WWD, 7 Mar. 2025
The painting is monochrome—blacks, grays, white—and the perspective intentionally distorted.
—Megan Marshall, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025
Alia Yee Noll, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
The camera app presents a number of camera modes – night, video, picture, beauty, 108M, portrait, panorama, a GIF maker, macro, slow-mo, QR reader, and monochrome.
—Paul Ridden
may 19, New Atlas, 19 May 2025
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Adjective
Before the show, Beckham styled a mostly monochrome look, evocative of an edgier take on the quiet luxury trend.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 7 Mar. 2025
The painting is monochrome—blacks, grays, white—and the perspective intentionally distorted.
—Megan Marshall, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
The pillow’s comfy, off-white terrycloth embodies Owens’ signature aesthetic of minimalism and monochrome, elevating your everyday lounging.
—Alia Yee Noll, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
The camera app presents a number of camera modes – night, video, picture, beauty, 108M, portrait, panorama, a GIF maker, macro, slow-mo, QR reader, and monochrome.
—Paul Ridden
may 19, New Atlas, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monochrome
Adjective
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The Eufy Life mobile app is solid, including easy at-a-glance views, long-term charts, and drill-down capabilities.—
Christopher Null,
Wired News,
4 June 2025
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Wall Street is coming off a solid stretch with strong gains in tech stocks allowing investors to look past any worries about tariffs or the economy.—
Sean Conlon,Sarah Min,
CNBC,
3 June 2025
Noun
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Tinting one series cobalt blue and the other a cloudy sepia, and leaving both unframed, Mikhailov emphasizes his prints’ rough physicality—an immediacy perfectly suited to the works’ immersion in urban despair.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2025
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Hermanus again shows highly polished craftsmanship, adding the subtlest hint of sepia tones to evoke the period in the early sections, but never to the point where the characters compete with the settings.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
21 May 2025
Adjective
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The women's brains showed a clear divide between the areas of the brain activated by self and non-self MHCs.—
Breanna Draxler,
Discover Magazine,
24 Jan. 2013
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An inspector’s notes also stated there were cardboard containers on the floor, a non-self closing restroom door, no training documentation for the staff.—
Pam McLoughlin,
Hartford Courant,
28 Feb. 2023
Noun
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Venture secondary specialists confirm that secondary prints have tightened from 60 percent discounts to low double-digits on marquee names.—
Zennon Kapron,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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Longer prints mean more power use and more opportunities for your print to peel off the print bed.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 May 2025
Adjective
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This year at Cannes, celebrities embraced sequins as power pieces, favoring monochromatic metallics and dramatic silhouettes.—
Pooja Shah,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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In a monochromatic video, Tevin could be seen dropping to one knee in the sand to pop the question.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
27 May 2025
Noun
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But now the asymmetry shone (sometimes, especially in photographs, literally: reflecting a spot of glare back at the camera).—
Alice Gregory,
Vogue,
4 June 2025
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The book includes lots of maps, photographs, drawings and diagrams to illustrate the regions and concepts that Professor Williams discusses in the text.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
Adjective
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Previously, pro-Kremlin trolls had been notably restrained in commenting on Trump, using neutral or careful language, Agentstvo reported.—
Isabel van Brugen,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 May 2025
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You'd be pushed into that tech- neutral ITC under section 48E instead.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
Noun
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Edward McKinnon,
Arkansas Online,
28 May 2025
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Hotel hall and corridor walls are lined with vintage black and white photos of fishermen, early-century pilots and beach scenes, all provided courtesy of the Montauk Library archives.—
John Oseid,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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“Monochrome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monochrome. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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