Synonyms for brown
braʊnbrown

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1. brown, brownnessnoun

   an orange of low brightness and saturation

   Synonyms:
   brownness

   Antonyms:
   neutral, blond, achromatic, blonde, light-haired

2. Brown, Robert Brownnoun

   Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)

   Synonyms:
   brownness

   Antonyms:
   blond, light-haired, achromatic, blonde, neutral

3. Brown, John Brownnoun

   abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)

   Synonyms:
   brownness

   Antonyms:
   light-haired, blonde, achromatic, neutral, blond

4. Brown University, Brownadjective

   a university in Rhode Island

   Synonyms:
   brownness

   Antonyms:
   neutral, blond, light-haired, achromatic, blonde

5. brown, brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brownadjective

   of a color similar to that of wood or earth

   Synonyms:
   chocolate-brown, brownish, dark-brown, browned

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, light-haired, blond, blonde, neutral

6. brown, brownedverb

   (of skin) deeply suntanned

   Synonyms:
   chocolate-brown, brownish, dark-brown, browned

   Antonyms:
   blonde, light-haired, neutral, blond, achromatic

7. brownverb

   fry in a pan until it changes color

   "brown the meat in the pan"

   Synonyms:
   embrown

   Antonyms:
   blond, blonde, achromatic, light-haired, neutral

8. embrown, brownverb

   make brown in color

   "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard"

   Synonyms:
   embrown

   Antonyms:
   blond, achromatic, neutral, blonde, light-haired

Matched Categories

1. • Abolitionist
   • Botanist
   • Chromatic Color
   • Color
   • Cook
   • Cookery

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1. brownadjective

   Synonyms:
   dusky, tawny, dun, swarthy

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1. List of paraphrases for "brown":

   brun, brunette, browne, lebrun, brownish, braun, maroon, white-winged, chestnut, browns, maroons, dark, drizzle, brunettes

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How to use brown in a sentence?

1. Carol Channing:

   Everybody was saying, 'She's not 5-foot-2, eyes of blue. She's over 6 feet tall and has muddy brown eyes,' but Anita (Loos) stuck to it.

2. Greg Jennings:

   When you no longer have the bona-fide, bail out, safety valve, that was A.J. Brown - When it came time to bail out that offense, whose number was dialed? Eleven. A.J. Brown, i'm not bullish on the idea that it's addition by subtraction. I'm not because there's a lot of unknown.

3. Frank Kostouros:

   Curiosity got the best of Edward Brown.

4. Chief Executive Lawson Whiting:

   It is a targeted tariff at Brown-Forman.

5. Jacob Neiheisel:

   He didn't campaign, he didn't debate. The rationale that was articulated was that he didn't to give free coverage to his opponent. I think he, or someone in his camp, should've seen this coming. If you look at the FCC filings, India Walton has a real media team working for India Walton, and all of that was public well in advance of when( Brown) decided that he should be worried.