What would happen if there were no flowers in our life? No matter how dull and boring it seemed to the world, if every day multi-colored spots flickered before my eyes. It would be uninteresting to live in the world, one can only guess, because we have such an opportunity to enjoy a huge number of the most diverse shades. Now even the most erudite and developed person will not be able to list all the colors of the world and their names, because now there are a huge number of them. Where do they come from? Naturally, from nature, without it, we would not have such a huge amount of colors. However, it is worth noting that there are colors that you simply can’t meet in nature, they are obtained either by mixing or using a computer and modern programs.
The meaning of color in life
No matter how it sounds, but the colors have a huge impact on us throughout the day. For example, sometimes it happens that fatigue overtakes us in the morning, so we subconsciously choose the color that will slightly cheer us up. For example, orange, red or green. In order to do this, you do not need to know the colors and their names, you only need to understand that today it is better to wear something of a more calm color or vice versa.
Experts have found that people who are more sensitive to the colors of the world, choose their wardrobe more carefully. Did you find yourself wanting to buy clothes of the same color? This means that at that period of your life you lacked what symbolizes or bears this color. I wanted red - not enough love and passion, blue - calmness and wisdom, white - purity and truth.
But no matter how we were attentive to the environment and shades, all the colors and their names cannot be remembered, since there are more than 15 thousand of them in the world! But, alas, an ordinary average person can distinguish only 150 colors, and this is not because he has vision problems, this is due to the inability of his eyes to perceive a large number of shades.
Basic colors and their names in English
It is known that shades are divided into several groups, one of them is basic. This means that each inhabitant of the planet knows these colors and their names, sees them several times daily. Among them, white, black and gray. In English, they are written as white, black and gray. Moreover, each of them has many additional meanings, for example, the adjective “black” can be used to characterize something bad, gloomy, “gray” will help to say about a dull, cloudy day (gray day).
As for the word white, we are used to using it as an adjective, but it can still be a verb meaning “whitewash,” “make white.”
These colors are called basic, not because all the rest are created from them, but because we learn them in childhood in the first place and distinguish them from any others.
Colors of rainbow
A rainbow is perhaps a storehouse of colors and shades. It only seems to us that there are seven of them, because in the places of transition of one color to another, a new color appears. There is no doubt that the rainbow contains a large number of shades, only our vision is not so perfect as to recognize them. we can see these subtle shades only with a strong increase in the rainbow. However, you can read the well-known colors and their names below.
The adjective “red” is written in English as red, it can be used in any phrase where you want to focus on this particular color, for example, red rose. The next color is orange - orange. An orange is also indicated. Following the orange is yellow - yellow, then - green, which sounds like green in English. Blue can be translated in different ways: either cyan, or simpler: sky blue (sky blue). The blue of the British almost does not differ from the blue, apparently, the sensitivity to colors and shades is a little weak, so this color sounds like blue. The last color, purple, is called purple in English. The rainbow itself is rainbow.
Complementary colors
Additional can be called such shades, which we also use often, but still somewhat less often than basic or rainbow colors. Undoubtedly, all the colors of the world and their names in English cannot be fit into one article, but the most popular of them you will find in it.
The word cream translates as cream, cream, cream, or foam. As a verb, it can be used in the role of “mix”.
Gold is not just gold, but also gold. This word can also be a noun, denoting gold in the meaning of wealth, nobility, value.
Chocolate - chocolate shade, chocolate. Slightly lighter than real brown, but lay people usually call chocolate just brown. Only the last one in English is spelled differently - brown.
Another shade of blue is cornflower blue. It is called cornflower blue, respectively, the first part of the name means “cornflower”, and the second is already known to us blue.
Pink is pink, but if you want to say “hot pink,” just add the prefix hot to the original word. This rule applies to all colors: hot-green, hot-yellow, etc.
Lime is another shade of green, it's lime, the color of lime.
The beautiful word emerald means no less beautiful emerald color.
What to do when you need to describe a two-color object?
No matter how developed a person is, no matter how perfect modern computer programs are, people will never know all the colors of the world and their names. Photos from paint festivals are probably the brightest pictures in the world. A variety of colors are mixed on them, it turns yellow-green, white-blue, red-orange, etc.
And what do you call two-color objects in English? As it turned out, everything is much easier when compared with Russian. To say “yellow-green” you just need to take the names of both colors and write through a hyphen, you get green-yellow. With black and white the same thing, only between the two words you need to insert the preposition “and”, it turns out black-and-white. We inserted the pretext because it is a stable expression.
Colors with beautiful names
We can still recognize or guess all the colors of the world and their names in Russian, however, in English there are a lot of colors with extremely unusual or simply beautiful names.
Dark indigo - dark indigo, if translated literally, for an ordinary person it is dark purple.
Violet-eggplant - eggplant, closer to pink.
Pale magenta - purple color.
Burgundy translates to “burgundy”, although in reality it is brownish red.
Vermilion is a crimson color, in other words, red.
Amber - amber color.
Turquoise is a turquoise, mint color.