Colorize

Alternative forms

• colourise UK
• colourize UK
• colorise UK, rare

Origin

From colour (traditionally spelled color when preceding a Greek suffix) + -ize.

Full definition of colorize

Verb

1. (US) To add color to.The child colorized the drawing.The woman colorized her hair.
2. (US, photography, filmology) To convert black and white media to color by digital post production as is often done in digital photography and in video special effects.There is a colorized version of Casablanca.
• 1988, August 26, w, Looking for America, What we see are beautiful overlapping NASA satellite photographs of the American mainland, proceeding sequentially from the east to the west--photographs ...
  taken in black and white and then luminously colorized by computer for scientific reasons.

Synonyms

• (to add color to) color (colour), color in (colour in)

Antonyms

• (to change or lose color) discolor (discolour)

Derived terms

• colorization (colourisation)
• colorizer (colouriser)