technicolor

noun

1. (uncountable)A colour process for motion pictures, developed and used in the twentieth century and known for its hyperrealistic, saturated levels of colour.

   “filmed in Technicolor [collocation in movie credits]”

2. (US)A process of colour cinematography using synchronised monochrome films, each of a different colour, to produce a colour print.
3. (informal)Vivid colour.
4. A collection of theories based on quantum chromodynamics

adj

1. (not-comparable)Using the Technicolor process.

   “It was his opinion that 1946's Do You Love Me, a Technicolor musical, would go down much better with 'industrial audiences' than the 'better class' of viewer.”

2. (US, not-comparable)Extremely or excessively colourful.

   “I can stand the sight of worms / And look at microscopic germs / But technicolor pachyderms / Is really too much for me”

   “Technicolour dreams are all I see / Technicolour dreams of you and me”

   “On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene / But yours was kitchen clean / Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home”

   “It's so hard to be a technicolor girl in an earth-tone world.”

   “How could the electrochemical processes in the lump of gray matter that is our brain give rise to or, even more mysteriously, be the dazzling technicolor play of consciousness, with its transports of joy, its stabs of anguish and its stretches of mild contentment alternating with boredom?”

3. (not-comparable)Describing something in a technicolor model, a model that is similar to the Standard Model but lacks a scalar Higgs field.