primary color

NOUN

three basic colors

Synonyms

WEAK

blue primary primary pigment primitive color red yellow

Example Sentences

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The pieces’ geometric shapes and primary colors echo the subway tile on the walls.

From Los Angeles Times

Adding to the mystique is a painterly palette of primary colors.

From Los Angeles Times

And we learn that there are three primary colors — red, yellow and blue — from which all other colors can be mixed.

From Salon

But it’s not just the overabundance of a divisive primary color that makes the image so unnerving.

From Salon

Three crisp, sharp triangles in flat primary colors are edged in scalloped yellow.

From Los Angeles Times