3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: colorful adj 1: having striking color; "colorful autumn leaves" [syn: {colourful}] [ant: {colorless}] 2: striking in variety and interest; "a colorful period of history"; "a colorful character"; "colorful language" [ant: {colorless}] 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}] [ant: {uncolored}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 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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