Word family noun colour/color colouring/coloring coloration colourant/colorant colourist/colorist adjective coloured/colored discoloured/discolored colourful/colorful ≠ colourless/colorless multicoloured colour/color verb colour/color adverb colourfully/colorfully ≠ colourlessly/colorlessly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcolouristcol‧our‧ist British English, colorist American English /ˈkʌlərɪst/ noun [countable] 1 technical a painter who uses colour itself as a subject of a painting2 someone whose job is to dye people’s hair (=change the colour)Examples from the Corpus
colourist• As a multi-skilled employee, her shifts involve chemical analysis, production monitoring and work as a colourist.• They forget that Picasso was a brilliant draughtsman, composer, colourist.• The window was designed by C.E. Kempe, a leading Victorian stained glass colourist and designer.• There are 14 different shades which can be inter-mixed by your colourist to achieve any colour. 