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hued
/hjud/ · 4 letters · 4 distinct letters
A form of hue.
- verb
take on color or become colored
In highlights it hued to a dull silver grey
- verb
suffuse with color
- noun
the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength
Word history
History of hue
From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīew (“appearance, form, species, kind; apparition; hue, color; beauty; figure of speech”), from Proto West Germanic *hiwi, from Proto Germanic *hiwją (“hue, form, shape, appearance; mildew”), from Proto Indo European *kew, *ḱew (“skin, colour of the skin”) or *ḱey (“grey, dark shade”).
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- How common it is
- Used about once in every 3 million words.
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