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adjective

colorful adj.

1.

Having striking color. Opposite of colorless. Note: (Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled)

Synonyms: colourful.

2.

Striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. (Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque)

3.

Having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome. Note: (Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful, blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel, brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey, honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green) (Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.)

Synonyms: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).

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Etymology of 'Colorful'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Colorful" Quotes from Famous Books

... about her at the shifting, colorful scene. There was certainly plenty to be seen and every minute held its own bit of interest. As they watched, another 'plane soared into view, black as a crow against the evening sky; it showed first as a mere speck, rapidly grew larger, and dropped to earth like a tired ...

— The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest • Captain Wilbur Lawton

... reputation. Having been deprived of close acquaintance with dictionaries, but having a facile imagination and some creative ability, Casey kept pace with progress and invented words of his own which he applied lavishly to all automobiles; but particularly and emphatically he applied the spiciest, most colorful ones ...

— Casey Ryan • B. M. Bower

... the threshold, instinctively removing his hat. As he remembered it, the room, though of good size and comfortable enough, had been a clutter of purely masculine belongings. He was quite unprepared for the colorful gleam of Navajo rugs, the curtained windows, the general air of swept and garnished tidiness which seemed almost luxury. Briefly his sweeping glance took in a bowl of flowers on the center-table and then came to rest abruptly on a slight, girlish figure just risen from ...

— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames

Words linked to "Colorful" : iridescent, calico, varicolored, monochromatic, trichrome, silver-colored, orange-hued, ablaze, rust-colored, metallic-coloured, multi-coloured, flesh-colored, vibrant, dun-colored, colourful, flame-coloured, buff-coloured, sporty, monochrome, multi-colored, dichromatic, flame-colored, many-sided, dusky-coloured, red-flowered, gold-colored, gaudy, flashy, fawn-coloured, honey-colored, cinnamon colored, roan, dun-coloured, bichrome, colourless, orange-colored, polychrome, chatoyant, chestnut-colored, picturesque, pale-colored, multicolored, jazzy, liver, psychedelic, multi-color, uncolored, multi-colour, neutral-coloured, trichromatic, colorless, metal-colored, liver-colored, rich, deep, flesh-coloured, rose-colored, blue-flowered, creamy-colored, black, multicolor, changeable, honey-coloured, tricolor, tawny-coloured, rosy-colored, brilliant, motley, garnet-coloured, reddened, cinnamon-red, fluorescent, shrill, buff-colored, multicoloured, pastel-colored, lead-colored, dark-colored, particoloured, cinnamon-coloured, tawny-colored, gay, colour, coloring, colouring, polychromatic, piebald, bright, prismatic, vivid, blackened, bay, dusky-colored, orange-flowered

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