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colorful
CIDE DICTIONARY
colorful, adj.
- having striking color. Opposite of
colorless ."[Narrower terms:changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot ;deep, rich ;flaming ;fluorescent, glowing ;prismatic ;psychedelic ;red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled ]" [WordNet 1.5] - striking in variety and interest. Opposite of
colorless ordull . [WordNet 1.5] - having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of
colorless andmonochrome ."[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 ]" [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
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, vulgarFor further exploring for "colorful" in Webster Dictionary Online
