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"word": "polychromatic"
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"sense": "antonym(s) of “single colored”",
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"sense": "antonym(s) of “single colored”",
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"sense": "antonym(s) of “lifeless”",
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"ref": "1982 April 24, Michael Rumaker, “Zephyrs”, in Gay Community News, page 5",
"text": "Let's not […] lose our sense of boyish fun and daring, but let's at least begin to assert ourselves in the world, to impose our vision of sex and affection and spirit more and more upon the monochromatic Fatherland.",
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"Plain, dull, lifeless."
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"Having only one color, represented by differing hues and tints. For example shades in a black and white television."
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"tint",
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"shade",
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"sense": "having only one color",
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"sense": "having only one color",
"word": "monocoloured"
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"sense": "having only one color",
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