chromatic /krsu'maetik; kro'maetik/ adj 1 of, in, colour(s): 顏色的; 彩色的; 五彩的： ~ printing. 彩色印刷。 2 (music) of, having notes of the ~ scale, that is, the succession of semitones, twelve to the octave, normal in Western music. (音樂) 半音的; 半音音階 (由連續(xù)的十二個半音組成) 的。