chromaticallyadv.
/krəʊˈmatɪkəli/ Now chiefly in Music.
In a chromatic manner.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adverb]
ornatelya1500
gorgeously1532
flourishingly1574
floridly1667
lusciously1779
chromatically1787
flowerily1886
the world > matter > colour > [adverb]
chromatically1854
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > chromatism > [adverb] > monochromatically
chromatically1854
monochromatically1880
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [adverb] > type of scale
diatonically1728
chromatically1886
pentatonically1942
modally1980
1787 J. Wolcot Ode upon Ode in Wks. (1794) I. 401 Most solemn, most chromatically wise!
1854 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circle Sci. Chem. 81 The central spot is chromatically illuminated.
1863 Possibil. Creation 109 The frontiers of a yellow kingdom on a map are never chromatically invaded or overshadowed by the splendours of the neighbouring blue empire.
1886 G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 122 There is nearly always a pedal flowing along, and the other parts are slipping chromatically down to merge in it.
1962 Listener 21 June 1091/1 His [sc. Hindemith's] lucid counter-point and chromatically expanded diatonicism.
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