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| Tom wrote: | | the opposite. The colors which hardly come off: ------------------colors. |
hardly come off?
A friend of mine is a designer/architect; they use the term 'lasting colour'.
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| Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:50 am Adjectives for Colors |
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You can talk about color as being fast which means the color is resistant to destruction or fading...
Is that what you mean, Tom?
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| Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:57 am Adjectives for Colors |
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| Yankee wrote: | | ...the color is resistant to destruction or fading |
Amy, would fading dye be the opposite in this case?
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| Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:33 am Adjectives for Colors |
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| Amy wrote: | | color as being fast which means the color is resistant to destruction or fading... |
Yes, That what was I wanted! What about the opposite?
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| Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:00 pm Adjectives for Colors |
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Hi Tom
The best I can do is:
colo(u)rfast / non-colo(u)rfast
permanent / non-permanent
Another synonym for colorfast is indelible and the opposite would be delible. However, this would usually be used if you are talking about ink rather than dye.
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