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Color:
Burnt umber


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Colors with the same hue:
Deep Maroon
Deep Red
Dark red
Sangria
Medium red
Signal Red
Venetian red
Paprika
Red
Chestnut
Vivid red
Lust
Rum
Dull Red
Cinereous
Tomato
Terra cotta
Similar colors:
Paprika
Kobe
Sienna
Chestnut
Peanut
Bordeaux
Cognac
Burnt Copper
Rum
Cayenne
Sweet Brown
Prune
Cedarwood
Nutmeg
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Metallic red
Blood red
Port
Dull Red
Henna
Muddy Red
Sien
Deep chestnut
Chianti
Rosewood
Chinese red
Deep Maroon
Sorrel
Chili Pepper
Burgundy
Words evoked by this color:
starving,  bradbury,  apocrypha,  crumple,  hogarth,  creak,  treadle,  pillage,  toiling,  damaged,  contorted,  sarcastically,  painstakingly,  travail,  sputtered,  fumbled,  pillaged,  hob,  painstaking,  galling,  wastrel,  rembrandt,  squatter,  squat,  stooping,  crouched,  homestead,  homemade,  carmel,  caramel,  praline,  caracal,  tasty,  scrumptious,  dessert,  carr,  toffee,  melted,  flan,  amoretto,  russet,  russo,  nussbaum,  credenza,  hardwood,  woodworking,  veneer,  parquet,  grundy,  authentic
Literary analysis:
In literature, burnt umber is celebrated as a rich, earthy hue that lends depth and warmth to both natural and human subjects. For example, its evocative power is on full display in a passage where forest fires “painted the sky with burnt umber,” creating a smoky, almost otherworldly atmosphere [1]. Similarly, the color is used to convey subtle nuances in character description, as when a feature is intensified to “almost a burnt umber,” suggesting a compelling interplay of darkness and vitality [2]. Even in playful poetic imagery, burnt umber emerges as a symbol of peculiarity and richness, contributing to a vivid tapestry of visual and emotional detail [3].
  1. The atmosphere grew smoky; forest fires painted the sky with burnt umber, and through this veil the sun shone like a copper shield.
    — from Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska by Charles Warren Stoddard
  2. Color much darker; russet of front of head intensified to almost a burnt umber and not extending backward beyond the eyes.
    — from A Manual of Philippine Birds by Richard C. (Richard Crittenden) McGregor
  3. There was an old man on the Humber, Who dined on a cake of Burnt Umber; When he said, "It's enough!"
    — from Nonsense Books by Edward Lear

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