Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

impossible color

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.54 in modern English

Syllables: im-pos-si-ble -col-or
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A color that the human eye normally cannot see, but might seem to appear under rare conditions or due to visual illusions.

Example Sentences

"If you're still with us, there is one last impossible color we’d like to share. Imaginary colors are those that mathematically exist, sure, but we’ll never see them."
"Self-luminous red, reddish green, stygian blue, and hyperbolic orange are all examples of impossible colors, a category that also includes chimerical, forbidden, imaginary, nonrealizable, and nonphysical colors. … There are two main categories of impossible color: those that lie just beyond human perception and are impossible to see, but exist, and those that do not exist physically, but we can "see" in the mind."

Inflected Forms

impossible colors (plural)

Questions

What does impossible color mean?: A color that the human eye normally cannot see, but might seem to appear under rare conditions or due to visual illusions.

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