monochromaticadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌmɒnə(ʊ)krəˈmatɪk/, U.S.

/ˈˌmɑnoʊkrəˈmædɪk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mono- comb. form, chromatic adj.

Etymology: < mono- comb. form + chromatic adj., after monochrome n. Compare classical Latin monochrōmatos (1st cent.; transliterated from Greek in Pliny the Elder in the context of painting) and its etymon Hellenistic Greek μονοχρώματος of a single colour ( < ancient Greek μονο- mono- comb. form + χρωματ- , χρῶμα colour: see chrome n.); also German monochromatisch , adjective (1777 in art (see sense A. 2), 1892 or earlier in ophthalmology: see sense A. 3). Compare earlier monochromatist n. and monochromic adj., and also dichromatic adj. and n., polychromatic adj.

A. adj.

a. Having or producing one colour; (Zoology, of an animal) occurring in only one colour form, or showing no colour difference between the sexes (opposed to dichromatic). Also: of different shades of grey; black and white.

ΚΠ

1822 D. Brewster in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 9 437 The Monochromatic Lamp being thus completed, I lost no time in applying it to the illumination of Microscopic objects.

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. iii. 30 Under a monochromatic Lammas sky.

1946 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 76 173/1 The neolithic culture with monochromatic pottery..in Honan was regarded..as being earlier than the painted pottery culture of Yang-Shao Tsun.

1980 ‘L. Cody’ Dupe (1981) xi. 75 Trying to imagine Deirdre's car crumpled against it, not a hard exercise in that monochromatic landscape.

1996 Jrnl. Raptor Res. 30 118 The spotted owl (Strix occidentalis) is a monochromatic species with slight sexual size dimorphism in adults.

b. Physics. Of light: of one wavelength. Of radiation generally: of a single wavelength, frequency, or energy throughout.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > chromatism > [adjective] > monochromatic

homogeneous1783

monochromatic1826

the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > particle avoiding strong interaction > electron > [adjective] > of single energy

monochromatic1826

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > [adjective] > relating to wavelengths

polychromatic1873

decimetric1879

monochromatic1923

the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > radioactivity > X-rays > study of crystals by X-rays > [adjective]

homogeneous1913

monochromatic1923

1826 Q. Jrnl. Sci., Lit., & Arts Dec. 374 Talbot on Monochromatic Light.

1854 B. Powell Pereira's Lect. Polarized Light (ed. 2) 27 The component prismatic colours are simple or homogeneous lights. Each of these may be termed a monochromatic light.

1892 Mind 1 211 Dr. Kirschmann has also found it possible to produce monochromatic light,—red, green, and blue—by combinations of thin aniline-dyed gelatine plates.

1923 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics IV. 22/2 The crystal is pulverised and the powder compressed into a rod, placed in the axis of a cylindrical photographic film and subjected to ‘monochromatic’ X-rays.

1955 C. R. N. Strouts et al. Analyt. Chem. II. xxvi. 942 It is desirable to use essentially monochromatic radiation for most analytical applications of X-ray diffraction.

1978 H. M. Rosenberg Solid State (ed. 2) ii. 28 Instead of using a monochromatic beam of radiation we could use a broad continuous spectrum.

1991 New Scientist 21 Sept. 23/3 The purity of light..is defined by comparing it to monochromatic light, which can be generated artificially, usually by a laser.

c. In extended use: drab, unvarying. Also: one-sided, portrayed from one point of view.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [adjective]

fasteOE

inunvariable1535

uniform1559

changeless1575

unvariant1582

wasteless1589

unchanging1595

inherent1601

unselfchanging1605

shiftless1606

ne'er-changinga1616

waxlessa1618

immutable1621

equal1626

irreducible1633

indiminishable1641

imprevaricable1644

Median1649

undiminishable1653

assiduous1661

unvarying1690

unfluctuating1723

unrelapsing1740

stable1742

unarbitrary1793

untransferable1794

unaltering1813

constant1817

all-or-nothing1853

all-or-none1864

reducelessc1864

unaugmentable1868

invariant1874

inadaptive1886

plateaued1899

steady state1909

hardcore1951

homoeostatic1955

monochromatic1959

1959 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 53 450 The sheer virtuosity of A Bell for Adano carries John Hersey's monochromatic portrayal of the relations between Major Joppolo and the people of Adano to heights of artistry seldom reached in novels.

2000 Scotsman 30 Nov. (S2) 14/2 Although the Variations are almost monochromatic in their harmony, Ashton whisked them through a full range of colour and texture.

2. Of a painting, design, etc.: executed in monochrome.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [adjective] > executed in one colour

monochromic1803

monochromatic1823

monochrome1849

1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 52 Mr. Gilpin's mode of monochromatic painting and printing.

1828 Edinb. Rev. Sept. 75 The Monochromatic works were highly esteemed.

1879 O. N. Rood Mod. Chromatics xviii. 310 In monochromatic designs the small interval is very frequently employed.

1937 Discovery July 212/1 Constable himself did not disdain the use of a warm monochromatic under-painting.

1994 Artnews Feb. 135/3 The three paintings in the exhibition..are monochromatic—in this case transparent gradations of a cyanlike blue.

3. Chiefly Ophthalmology. Having or designating vision, esp. a form of colour-blindness, in which all colours appear as shades of one colour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > colour blind

dichromic1836

dichromatic1842

colour-blind1847

green-blind1868

red-blind1873

blue-blind1877

red–green1878

achromatopsic1883

dyschromatoptic1886

colour-weak1893

violet-blind1894

monochromatic1897

protanopic1898

protanomalous1911

tritanopic1915

deuteranomalous1932

tritanomalous1943

colour-defective1958

protan1961

1897 Mind 6 582 Besides these [sc. trichromatic and dichromatic systems]..is the monochromatic system of congenital total colour-blindness.

1902 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 793/2 The sensations of those individuals whom they named ‘monochromatic’..were dogmatically affirmed to be vision under the form of red or blue or green, it was uncertain which.

1956 Brit. Jrnl. Ophthalmol. 40 470 His vision is monochromatic when examined in the colour apparatus.

1974 Sci. Amer. Dec. 25/3 The ophthalmologist testified that the witness was actually monochromatic, which meant he could perceive no colors at all.

1999 Nature 4 Nov. 36/1 Nocturnal prosimians are thought to be monochromatic, as they have no functional autosomal opsin gene.

B. n.

A monochromatic painting, drawing, garment, etc. Also: any effect or pattern of light with only one colour.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > painting in monochrome > work

monochrome1662

monochromatic1852

1852 J. Wetherbee (title of broadside) Chirography and monochromatic: John Wetherbee, teacher of penmanship, would respectfully inform the ladies and gentlemen of this place, that he will begin a course of lessons in this useful art.

1893 Athenæum 27 May 676/2 There are examples of all sorts of styles..[including] the monochromatics and subtle tone-studies of Mr. Whistler.

1919 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 5 149 On producing identical fringes of inclination (achromatics or monochromatics) and of color..by their superposition a slit of any width..would be admissable.

1994 Lewiscraft CraftLines Nov. 2/3 Jewel-tones have peaked, Reds are on the increase... Mid-tones and monochromatics will grow.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	monochromatic
释义	monochromaticadj.n. Brit. /ˌmɒnə(ʊ)krəˈmatɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌmɑnoʊkrəˈmædɪk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mono- comb. form, chromatic adj. Etymology: < mono- comb. form + chromatic adj., after monochrome n. Compare classical Latin monochrōmatos (1st cent.; transliterated from Greek in Pliny the Elder in the context of painting) and its etymon Hellenistic Greek μονοχρώματος of a single colour ( < ancient Greek μονο- mono- comb. form + χρωματ- , χρῶμα colour: see chrome n.); also German monochromatisch , adjective (1777 in art (see sense A. 2), 1892 or earlier in ophthalmology: see sense A. 3). Compare earlier monochromatist n. and monochromic adj., and also dichromatic adj. and n., polychromatic adj. A. adj. 1. a. Having or producing one colour; (Zoology, of an animal) occurring in only one colour form, or showing no colour difference between the sexes (opposed to dichromatic). Also: of different shades of grey; black and white. ΚΠ 1822 D. Brewster in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 9 437 The Monochromatic Lamp being thus completed, I lost no time in applying it to the illumination of Microscopic objects. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. iii. 30 Under a monochromatic Lammas sky. 1946 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 76 173/1 The neolithic culture with monochromatic pottery..in Honan was regarded..as being earlier than the painted pottery culture of Yang-Shao Tsun. 1980 ‘L. Cody’ Dupe (1981) xi. 75 Trying to imagine Deirdre's car crumpled against it, not a hard exercise in that monochromatic landscape. 1996 Jrnl. Raptor Res. 30 118 The spotted owl (Strix occidentalis) is a monochromatic species with slight sexual size dimorphism in adults. b. Physics. Of light: of one wavelength. Of radiation generally: of a single wavelength, frequency, or energy throughout. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > chromatism > [adjective] > monochromatic homogeneous1783 monochromatic1826 the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > particle avoiding strong interaction > electron > [adjective] > of single energy monochromatic1826 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > [adjective] > relating to wavelengths polychromatic1873 decimetric1879 monochromatic1923 the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > radioactivity > X-rays > study of crystals by X-rays > [adjective] homogeneous1913 monochromatic1923 1826 Q. Jrnl. Sci., Lit., & Arts Dec. 374 Talbot on Monochromatic Light. 1854 B. Powell Pereira's Lect. Polarized Light (ed. 2) 27 The component prismatic colours are simple or homogeneous lights. Each of these may be termed a monochromatic light. 1892 Mind 1 211 Dr. Kirschmann has also found it possible to produce monochromatic light,—red, green, and blue—by combinations of thin aniline-dyed gelatine plates. 1923 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics IV. 22/2 The crystal is pulverised and the powder compressed into a rod, placed in the axis of a cylindrical photographic film and subjected to ‘monochromatic’ X-rays. 1955 C. R. N. Strouts et al. Analyt. Chem. II. xxvi. 942 It is desirable to use essentially monochromatic radiation for most analytical applications of X-ray diffraction. 1978 H. M. Rosenberg Solid State (ed. 2) ii. 28 Instead of using a monochromatic beam of radiation we could use a broad continuous spectrum. 1991 New Scientist 21 Sept. 23/3 The purity of light..is defined by comparing it to monochromatic light, which can be generated artificially, usually by a laser. c. In extended use: drab, unvarying. Also: one-sided, portrayed from one point of view. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [adjective] fasteOE inunvariable1535 uniform1559 changeless1575 unvariant1582 wasteless1589 unchanging1595 inherent1601 unselfchanging1605 shiftless1606 ne'er-changinga1616 waxlessa1618 immutable1621 equal1626 irreducible1633 indiminishable1641 imprevaricable1644 Median1649 undiminishable1653 assiduous1661 unvarying1690 unfluctuating1723 unrelapsing1740 stable1742 unarbitrary1793 untransferable1794 unaltering1813 constant1817 all-or-nothing1853 all-or-none1864 reducelessc1864 unaugmentable1868 invariant1874 inadaptive1886 plateaued1899 steady state1909 hardcore1951 homoeostatic1955 monochromatic1959 1959 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 53 450 The sheer virtuosity of A Bell for Adano carries John Hersey's monochromatic portrayal of the relations between Major Joppolo and the people of Adano to heights of artistry seldom reached in novels. 2000 Scotsman 30 Nov. (S2) 14/2 Although the Variations are almost monochromatic in their harmony, Ashton whisked them through a full range of colour and texture. 2. Of a painting, design, etc.: executed in monochrome. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [adjective] > executed in one colour monochromic1803 monochromatic1823 monochrome1849 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 52 Mr. Gilpin's mode of monochromatic painting and printing. 1828 Edinb. Rev. Sept. 75 The Monochromatic works were highly esteemed. 1879 O. N. Rood Mod. Chromatics xviii. 310 In monochromatic designs the small interval is very frequently employed. 1937 Discovery July 212/1 Constable himself did not disdain the use of a warm monochromatic under-painting. 1994 Artnews Feb. 135/3 The three paintings in the exhibition..are monochromatic—in this case transparent gradations of a cyanlike blue. 3. Chiefly Ophthalmology. Having or designating vision, esp. a form of colour-blindness, in which all colours appear as shades of one colour. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > colour blind dichromic1836 dichromatic1842 colour-blind1847 green-blind1868 red-blind1873 blue-blind1877 red–green1878 achromatopsic1883 dyschromatoptic1886 colour-weak1893 violet-blind1894 monochromatic1897 protanopic1898 protanomalous1911 tritanopic1915 deuteranomalous1932 tritanomalous1943 colour-defective1958 protan1961 1897 Mind 6 582 Besides these [sc. trichromatic and dichromatic systems]..is the monochromatic system of congenital total colour-blindness. 1902 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 793/2 The sensations of those individuals whom they named ‘monochromatic’..were dogmatically affirmed to be vision under the form of red or blue or green, it was uncertain which. 1956 Brit. Jrnl. Ophthalmol. 40 470 His vision is monochromatic when examined in the colour apparatus. 1974 Sci. Amer. Dec. 25/3 The ophthalmologist testified that the witness was actually monochromatic, which meant he could perceive no colors at all. 1999 Nature 4 Nov. 36/1 Nocturnal prosimians are thought to be monochromatic, as they have no functional autosomal opsin gene. B. n. A monochromatic painting, drawing, garment, etc. Also: any effect or pattern of light with only one colour. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > painting in monochrome > work monochrome1662 monochromatic1852 1852 J. Wetherbee (title of broadside) Chirography and monochromatic: John Wetherbee, teacher of penmanship, would respectfully inform the ladies and gentlemen of this place, that he will begin a course of lessons in this useful art. 1893 Athenæum 27 May 676/2 There are examples of all sorts of styles..[including] the monochromatics and subtle tone-studies of Mr. Whistler. 1919 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 5 149 On producing identical fringes of inclination (achromatics or monochromatics) and of color..by their superposition a slit of any width..would be admissable. 1994 Lewiscraft CraftLines Nov. 2/3 Jewel-tones have peaked, Reds are on the increase... Mid-tones and monochromatics will grow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1822
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