colorful
3 definitions found
colorful - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
colorful \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
]
Syn: colourful.
[WordNet 1.5]
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]
[WordNet 1.5]
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.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
[WordNet 1.5]
colorful - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
colorful
adj 1: having striking color; "colorful autumn leaves" [syn:
colorful, colourful] [ant: colorless, colourless]
2: striking in variety and interest; "a colorful period of
history"; "a colorful character"; "colorful language" [syn:
colorful, colourful] [ant: colorless, colourless]
3: having color or a certain color; sometimes used in
combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color";
"amber-colored heads of grain" [syn: colored, coloured,
colorful] [ant: uncolored, uncoloured]
colorful - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "colorful":
bicolor, bicolored, blatant, brave, brazen, brazenfaced, bright,
bright-hued, brilliant, burning, colory, crazy, crude, daedal,
deep-colored, dichromatic, divers-colored, exotic, extravagant,
flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, florid, garish, gaudy, gay,
gay-colored, glaring, gorgeous, harlequin, high-colored, intense,
kaleidoscopic, loud, lurid, many-colored, medley, meretricious,
motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, obtrusive,
parti-color, parti-colored, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic,
prismal, rich, rich-colored, screaming, sensational, shameless,
shot, shot through, showy, spectacular, spectral, splashy, tawdry,
thunder and lightning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor,
tricolored, two-tone, varicolored, variegated, versicolor,
versicolored, vivid, vulgar
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