adj.
  - Music  relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key of a passage. 
▸(of a scale) ascending or descending by semitones.
 - relating to or produced by colour.
 
 
  Derivative
  
    - chromatically adv.
  - chromaticism n.
 
   
  Etymology
  C17: from Fr. chromatique or L. chromaticus, from Gk khrōmatikos, from khrōma, khrōmat- ‘colour, chromatic scale’.