Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun complementary_color

1 sense of complementary color

Sense 1
complementary color, complementary -- (either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments); "yellow and blue are complementaries")
       => chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour -- (a color that has hue)