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kaleidoscopic
CIDE DICTIONARY
kaleidoscopic, a.
Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a kaleidoscope; variegated. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
kaleidoscopic
able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, baggy, bicolor, bicolored, blobby, blurred, blurry, changeable, chaotic, characterless, checkered, colorful, colory, confused, crazy, daedal, dichromatic, disorderly, divers-colored, ever-changing, featureless, flexible, fluid, formless, fuzzy, harlequin, hazy, impermanent, inchoate, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, inform, lumpen, malleable, many-colored, many-sided, medley, metamorphic, misty, mobile, modifiable, motley, movable, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, mutable, nondescript, nonuniform, obscure, orderless, parti-color, parti-colored, permutable, plastic, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, prismal, protean, proteiform, resilient, rubbery, shapeless, shot, shot through, spectral, supple, thunder and lightning, transient, transitory, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone, unclear, undefined, unordered, unorganized, vague, variable, varicolored, variegated, versicolor, versicoloredROGET THESAURUS
kaleidoscopic
Variegation
N variegation, colors, dichroism, trichroism, iridescence, play of colors, polychrome, maculation, spottiness, striae, spectrum, rainbow, iris, tulip, peacock, chameleon, butterfly, tortoise shell, mackerel, mackerel sky, zebra, leopard, cheetah, nacre, ocelot, ophite, mother-of-pearl, opal, marble, check, plaid, tartan, patchwork, marquetry-, parquetry, mosaic, tesserae, strigae, chessboard, checkers, chequers, harlequin, Joseph's coat, tricolor, variegated, many-colored, many-hued, divers-colored, party- colored, dichromatic, polychromatic, bicolor, tricolor, versicolor, of all the colors of the rainbow, of all manner of colors, kaleidoscopic, iridescent, opaline, opalescent, prismatic, nacreous, pearly, shot, gorge de pigeon, chatoyant, irisated, pavonine, pied, piebald, motley, mottled, marbled, pepper and salt, paned, dappled, clouded, cymophanous, mosaic, tesselated, plaid, tortoise shell, spotted, spotty, punctated, powdered, speckled, freckled, flea-bitten, studded, flecked, fleckered, striated, barred, veined, brinded, brindled, tabby, watered, grizzled, listed, embroidered, daedal, naevose, stipiform, strigose, striolate, (iii) PERCEPTIONS OF LIGHT.For further exploring for "kaleidoscopic" in Webster Dictionary Online