: any of a set of colors from which all other colors may be derived
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The clean lines and primary colors, grounded in mid-twentieth-century commercial art, evoke Chris Ware and Ivan Brunetti.—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025 What will be primary color of Ariana Grande red carpet dress?—Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025 That light source shapes up as a triple-laser flavor where each of the primary colors – red, green and blue – gets its own laser, with the beams merged into one before leaving the optics.—New Atlas, 5 June 2025 Adding to the mystique is a painterly palette of primary colors.—Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for primary color
: any of a set of colors from which all other colors may be made with the colors for light being red, green, and blue and for pigments or paint being red, yellow, and blue
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primary color
noun
: any of a set of colors (as red, yellow, and blue or red, green, and blue) from which all other colors may be derived
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