Colours in English

A la hora de hablar de los colores en ingles nos podemos encontrar  con una gran variedad de colores ya que  hay tantos colores como matices, cosas , y también desde el punto de vista de cada persona un mismo color puede  verse de diferentes formas. Por todo esto me he atrevido a hacer este articulo en el que he intentado recopilar toda la variedad de colores posibles . Espero que sea de vuestro agrado y a la vez le encontráis la utilidad y así podáis darle color a la vida !!!

Word order with colours/ Orden de los colores

Hay tres formas en las cuales puedes usar un color en una oración para describir algo

1. 1. To Be + Colour. e.g. My car is blue. My dad's car is red.
2. 2. Colour + Noun. e.g. The blue car is mine. The red car is my dad's.
3. 3. Colour is the Noun. e.g. Blue is the colour of my car. Red is the colour of my dad's car.

Light - Dark - Bright -Shades

Los colores tienen diferentes sombras , matices o intensidades que en ingles se pueden expresar de diferentes maneras: dark green, light green, bright green

Light (claro) es el contrario de  Dark (oscuro).     

Pale (palido) is the opposite of deep (profundo, intenso)         

Bright:  brillante , color fuerte fácil de ver.

• Helen has  got dark green eyes.-Helen  tiene los ojos verde oscuro.
• His light grey hair made him look very distinguished. Su cabello gris claro le hace parecer muy distinguido.
• Her bright pink dress  is very expensive.Su vetido rosa brillante  es muy caro.

Los adjetivos light, dark y bright se colocan delante del sustantivo o nombre al que acompañan como cualquier otra adjetivo.

Colours +   suffix-ISH

Cuando no estes seguro de como describir un color puedes utilizar el sufijo -ish que los hablantes nativos ingleses utilizan muy a menudo. Por ejemplo un color puede ser: purplish, reddish, bluish, Greenish (= aproximando se al verde pero no exactamente verde).Por ejemplo cuando decimos “brownish”,  hacemos referencia a una clase de marron aunque no a un marron definido.

• The sunset is a beautiful pinkish-purplish colour today.
• His blouse is lightish blue in colour.

·         • She has brownish-green eyes

·         • Philip has reddish-brown hair.

Si te gustan los colores  y te entretiene aprender mas colores  en ingles aquí te dejo un listado de colores muy variado pues como dice un famoso refran "Para gustos colores" For example:

shell pink, navy blue, salmon

Typical things of each Colour

La siguiente lista recopila cosas que  suelen estar asociada a cada color:

Red: Strawberry, Rose, Fire engine, Blood, Heart

Orange: Pumpkin, Carrot, Basketball

Yellow: Cheese, Sun, Butter, Lemon

Green: Grass, Lettuce, Frog, Leaf, Lizard

Blue: Sky, Ocean, Blueberry, Whale

Black: Bat, Night, Tire (tyre), Fly

White: Paper, Sugar, Milk, Snow, Sheep

Pink: Pig, Tongue, Cotton candy (Candy floss)

Brown: Wood, Cigar, Earth, Acorn, Horse

Grey / Gray: Rock, Lead, Dust, Mouse, Elephant

Purple: Bruise, Grapes

Adjetivos y sustantivos que generalmente se usan para describrir los colores es decir sinónimos o palabras relacionadas con los colores

Light pale in colour, not dark. (claro)

Clear- claro
Clean clean smells , tastes and colours are light and fresh. (limpio)

Delicate: a delicate taste, smell or colour is pleasant and not too strong.(delicado)

Pure a pure sound, colour, light etc is very clear and beautiful.(puro)

Mellow: soft and warm in colour.(suave)

Watery: pale and strong. (aguado)

Bright :bright colours are strong but not dark. Brillante

Ablaze: bright and full of light or colour (brillante)

Bold: very bright , clear or strong in colour and therefore easy to notice. (intenso , llamtivo)

Brash: big, bright, or colourful in a way that is not attractive. (atrevido)

Brilliant: brillante

Festive: Bright and colourful in a way that makes you think of a celebration. (festivo)

Fiery: very bright in colour, especially bright red, orange or yellow (literary) (intenso, fogoso)

Flamboyant: brightly coloured or decorated.(llamativo, extravagante)

Flaming: brightly coloured red, orange or yellow.(llameante, ardiente)

Fluorescent: very bright and seems to be reflect ligth (fluorescente)

Gay: brightly- coloured or attractive ( old fashioned) (alegre , vistoso)

Glowing: Glowing colours are bright and look warm. (brillante, encedido)

 Harsh: not pleasant because they are  very bright (penetrante, estridente)

Jazzy bright colourful nad attractive (informal) (llamativo, chillon)

Loud very bright in a way that doesn`t show good taste. (alto)

Twinkling: centelleante

Psychedelic: psychedelic clothes, desings are very brightly coloured and have big unusual patterns.(sicodelico)

Showy brightly coloured and attractive (ostentoso, llamativo)

shimmering: reluciente

Vibrant: brigt and colourful. (vibrante)

Violent: very bright and almost painful to look at.(violento)

Vivid bright and string. (vivido, alegre)

Pale- pálido

Bleached: made very pale by chemicals or strong sunlight.(blanqueado)

dull: mate, opaco, sin brillo (apagado)

Drab:  apagado, monotono (apagado)

Soft: a soft light or colour is pale, gentle and pleasant to look at.(suave)

Muted not as bright or colorful as usual. (apagado, tenue)

Neutral : not very strong or bright. (neutral)

Monochrome: not brightly coloured and usually grey in colour. Able to show or produce only black , white and grey. (momocromatico)

Restrained: not too bright in colour or not decorated too much. (contenido, refrenado)

Sickly: a sickly colour   is so pale that it looks unpleasant .(palido, enfermizo)

Sober: plain and not brightly colored .(sobrio, serio)

Pastel: Having a pale soft colour.

Dark: strong and not pale in colour.Oscuro

 Deep: dark and strong. (profundo)

Sombre: dark in colour, specially grey or black. (sombrio)

Opaque: dull, dark-opaco (opaco)

Rich a rich color, sound or smell is strong in a pleasant way. (rico)

Colourful something that is colourful has bright colours or a lot of different colours

Bicolor: bicolor 
Chintzy: too colourful and in poor taste (floreado, recargado)

Coloured :red, green, orange instead of black and white or transparent. (colorido)

Iridescent : showing changing colours in different types of light (Irisado)

Multicolored consisting of several different  colours. (Multicolor)

Rainbow: arco iris

Opalescent seems always to be changing colour slightly

Tricolor-tricolor

Two-tone:: two-toe shoes or clothes have two colours (informal old fashioned) (con dos tonos)


Colourless : without  colour - sin color

Glassy: like a glass-(cristalino)

Discoloured: it  has changed in colour and no longer looks, new, clean  or healthy (descolorido)

Transparent-trasparente

Crystalline: transparent (cristalino)

Translucent: very pale or light. (Traslucido)

 washed-out: washed-out clothes have lost a lot of their colour because they have been washed so often.(lavado, descolorido)

Cold: colours such as white, blue, and grey that make you think of things that are cold. -Frio
Cool: cool colours such as white and blue, give an idea of cold instead of heat. (Fresco)

Medium: neither light nor dark in colour.

Others

Brindle: manchado

Dotted: punteado

Evergreen: perenne, clasico

Dappled: covered with or foring areas of lighter and darker colour or light and shadow (con lunares moteado)
Harmonious: harmonious colours or parts combine well with each other.(harmonioso)

Color-coded: marked with different colour to make it easy to see different features or uses.(codificado por colores)

Monotone: all the same shade of that colour.(monotono)

Tinted: containing  a small amount of a aprticular colour.(tintado)

Tonal: relating to the tone of something, especially a colour or sound.(tonal)

Fast : Colours that are fast will not become paler when clothes are washed. (rapido, sensible)

Fresh colours with give the impression of something fresh.(fresco)

Matching with some colour, pattern or design (que combina)

Smoky: ahumado

Tinged something  that is tinged with a colour, feeling, or quantity contains a small amount of it.(teñido)

Polka-doted: paterned with spots (a lunares)

Warm : warm colours have red, orange, or yellow in them. (calido)

Descriptive words /adjetives for colour pink

Pink: rosa

Rose: rosa

Salmon: warm pink in colour- salmon

Strawberry: fresa

 Adjectives and  Descriptive words for color RED

Carmine: dark red in colour -carmin

Cerise: cherry-red color- cereza

Cherry-cereza
Coral: reddish-pink colour- coral
Currant: berry ,pasa de Corinto-Grosella

Claret: dark red colour- burdeos
Carnelian: red quartz cornalina

Copper: red-brown metal-cobrizo

Cordovan: dark red-brown - cuero

Crimson: deep red- carmesi

Dive : Diva

Flushed: red- colorado

Fuchsia: magenta colour-fucsia

Garnet: dark red gemstone-granate,

Magenta: reddish-purple colour, magenta.

Maroon: burgundy colour- bermellon
Poppy: amapola

Raspberry: deep red-frambuesa

Ruddy: reddish,rosy-rubicundo, rojizo.
Rust: reddish-brown in colour- teja
Ruby: red gemstone-rubí

Scarlet: bright red colour-escarlata, rojo
Tomato: tomate
Vermillion :bright red, scarlet-vermellon
Wine: dark red- vino

 Adjectives and Descriptive words for Blue.

Aqua/ aquamarine: plale greenish-blue colour-:-guamarina, azul verdoso

Azure : sky blue- celeste
Cerulean:sky-blue colour- cerúleo.
Cobalt-cobalto

Cyan: aqua, turquoise colour- turquesa, azul verdoso

Dark blue: azul oscuro

Delft: azul porcelana
Indigo: dark blue colour- índigo , añil,azulete.

Lake: lago navy: dark blue- azul marino

Light blue : azul claro

Navy: marino

Peacock-pavo real
Royal; real, bright blue- azul Francia, rey

Sapphire: deep blue in colour- azul zafiro

Sky blue: light blue- azul cielo

Steel : dark metallic colour- acero

Turquoise blue-green in colour- turquesa

Ultramarine: bright blue in colour- azul ultramarino.

 Violet: purple- violeta

Adjectives  and Descriptive words for Yellow.

Amber: yellow in colour-:ambar

Beige: pale-brown colour- beis

Bistre : bistre (yellowish-brown pigment)

Blonde: rubio

Brass: coppery. Yellow- cobrizo, amarillo 
Buff: tan colour- beis

Buttercup :bright yellow wildflower-ranunculo.

Butter:mantequilla

Butterscotch: toffee-.caramelo

Canary: amarillo canario

Chartreuse : yellowish-green,verde

Citrine: yellowish gemstone- cuarzo

Citron: greenish-yellow colour: Amarillo verdoso

Cobalt: amarillo / azul cobalto

Gold: color oro

Goldenrod: golden-yellow colour- amarillo dorado

Lemon: yellow. Amarillo limón yellow: amarillo

Lime: acid green in colour- lima 

Maize: maiz

Mustard: mostaza

Ocher: yellowish-brown in colour- ocre

Ochre yellowish-brown in colour- ocre

Primrose: yellow-primula

Saffron: yelow-orange colour- azafran

Straw: paja

Topaz: topacio

Adjectives and  Descriptive words for Orange.

Flesh: peachy in colour- carne

Henna: reddish-orange-henna

Apricot: orange-pink in colour- albaricoque

Peach: melocoton

Persimmon: caqui

Tangerine: mandarina

 Adjectives and descriptive words for Green

Apple: manzana

Avocado: yellowish-green; aguacate 
Celery: apio

Chartreuse: yellowish-green; verde amarillento

Dark green: verde oscuro

Emerald:green gemstone; esmeralda

Light green:  verde claro

Lime- lima

Mint-verde menta

Mushy: pasteloso, suave.

Olive: dull green - verde oliva

Spruce: abeto

Teal: greenish-blue colour;verde azulado

Descriptive words / Adjectives for White.

Cloudy:cremoso, blanquecino

Ivory: off-white in colour- marfil

Marble: marmol

Milky: lechoso

Orchid: orquídea

Oyster:ostra

Pearl: perla
pearly: nacarado

Platinum: platino

Porcelain: porcelana

Satin:Satinado

Silver:plata

Snow: nieve

Snowy: blanco-nevado (beard,hair)

 Adjectives and Descriptive words  for Purple.

Amethyst: purple  gemstone-amatista

Burgundy: reddish; color borgoña, bermellon.

Fuchsia-fucsia

Lavender:bluish purple in colour;lavanda

Lilac:light purple-lila

Magenta-magenta

Mauve: pale blue-purple in colour ; malva

Mulberry : morera

Orchid: orquidea

Pansy: pensamiento

Plum: purple in colour; ciruela

Puce: dark purple; morado

Purple- bermellón

Violet-purple; violeta

 Adjectives  and Descriptive words for Black

Charcoal :carbon

Chicory: achicoria, endivia

Ebony: black- ébano

Jet: black- azabache

Licorice: regaliz

Obsidian: black-obsidiana

Slate: pizarra

Sooty: dark black- negro hollin 

Tar: Alquitran

Adjective and descriptive words for Grey

Ashen: cenizo

Dove: paloma

Grizzly: grey haired- canoso, gris

Pearl:grey

Steel:acero

Adjectives and descriptive words for Brown

Amber: ambar

Bay: reddish-brown, castaño rojizo (Hair)

Beige: beige

Brandy: brandy

Bronze: bronce

Cream: cream-coloured- crema

Chestnut: reddish brown-castaño
chocolate: Bronw- chocolate
 Almond: almendra

Cinnamon: canela

Coffee: cafe

Copper: cobre

Dun: greyish-brown colour- pardo

Earth: tierra

Ginger: gengibre

Hazel: green-brown, avellana

Khaki: greenish brown colur- kaki

Mahogany: dark wood-caoba

Mousy: (hair light-brown) castaño claro

Nutmeg: nuez moscada

Rotten: pasado , podrido.

Sable: dark brown or black-sable

Sepia : sepia photographs are old and are a red- brown coloured.

Sienna: brown colour- siena

Tan: light brown- tostado

Tawny:  yellowish-brown. Rubio oscuro, leonado.

Umber: brown in colour- ocre oscuro.

Walnut:  nogal