'colorful' definitions:
Definition of 'colorful'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having striking color; "colorful autumn leaves" [syn: colorful, colourful] [ant: colorless, colourless]
adjective
Striking in variety and interest; "a colorful period of history"; "a colorful character"; "colorful language" [syn: colorful, colourful] [ant: colorless, colourless]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'colorful'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'colorful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'colorful'
- Color,
- Colorable,
- Colorableness,
- Colorably,
- Colorate,
- Coloration,
- Colored,
- Coloring,
- Of color,
- color in,
- colorize,
- colors,
- off color,
- Accidental color,
- Body color,
- Color blindness,
- Color sergeant,
- Complementary color,
- Complementary colors,
- Cyanic colors,
- Damask color,
- Dead color,
- Dead coloring,
- Express color,
- Field colors,
- Flame color,
- Flying colors,
- Fundamental colors,
- Grain colors,
- Indelible colors,
- Isabel color,
- Isabella color,
- Lead color,
- Lenten color,
- Liver color,
- Local color,
- Peach color,
- Play of colors,
- Primary colors,
- Primitive colors,
- Prismatic colors,
- Protective coloring,
- Rose color,
- Saturated color,
- Secondary color,
- Solid color,
- Stand of colors,
- Steam colors,
- Subjective color,
- Substantive color,
- Tempering color,
- Tertiary color,
- To dip the colors,
- To troop the colors,
- Tone color,
- Water color,
- Xanthic colors,
- achromatic color,
- apatetic coloration,
- aposematic coloration,
- basic color,
- change of color,
- chromatic color,
- cinnamon colored,
- color bar,
- color bearer,
- color blind,
- color chart,
- color circle,
- color code,
- color constancy,
- color force,
- color guard,
- color line,
- color of law,
- color photography,
- color property,
- color scheme,
- color spectrum,
- color television,
- color tube,
- color tv,
- color vision,
- color wash,
- color wheel,
- colored audition,
- colored hearing,
- colored person,
- coloring book,
- coloring material,
- copper color,
- copper colored,
- cryptic coloration,
- dithered color,
- earth color,
- earth colors,
- food color,
- food coloring,
- hair coloring,
- mouse colored,
- nonsolid color,
- off-color,
- oil color,
- parti color,
- people of color,
- person of color,
- poster color,
- primary color,
- protective coloration,
- ring of color,
- rose colored,
- skin color,
- spectral color,
- vat color,
- warning coloration,
- Color-blind,
- Cream-colored,
- Fawn-colored,
- Flame-colored,
- High-colored,
- Judas-colored,
- Lark-colored,
- Liver-colored,
- Parti-colored,
- Party-colored,
- Peach-colored,
- Rose-colored,
- Self-color,
- Self-colored,
- Slate-color,
- Straw-colored,
- Three-color,
- To come off with flying colors,
- Trout-colored,
- blush-colored,
- brightly-colored,
- buff-colored,
- chestnut-colored,
- chocolate-colored,
- cinnamon-colored,
- color television system,
- color television tube,
- color tv tube,
- color vision deficiency,
- creamy-colored,
- dark-colored,
- dun-colored,
- dusky-colored,
- earth-colored,
- flesh-colored,
- garnet-colored,
- gold-colored,
- honey-colored,
- lead-colored,
- light-colored,
- lilac-colored,
- metal-colored,
- metallic-colored,
- mouse-colored,
- multi-color,
- multi-colored,
- neutral-colored,
- olive-colored,
- orange-colored,
- pale-colored,
- parti-color,
- pass with flying colors,
- pastel-colored,
- peachy-colored,
- primary color for light,
- primary color for pigments,
- rosy-colored,
- rust-colored,
- silver-colored,
- snuff-color,
- solid-colored,
- tawny-colored,
- violet-colored,
- water-color,
- wine-colored,
- Rose-colored starling,
- clay-colored robin,
- color-blind person,
- cream-colored courser,
- earth-colored earthlike,
- honey honey-colored,
- mousy mouse-colored,
- primary subtractive color for light,
- rose-colored pastor,
- slate-colored junco,
- straw-color straw-colored straw-coloured,
- blushful blush-colored rosy,
- field-sequential color television,
- field-sequential color tv,
- red-green color blindness,
- rust rusty rust-colored,
- yellow-blue color blindness,
- field-sequential color television system,
- field-sequential color tv system,
- snuff snuff-brown snuff-color snuff-colour snuff-colored snuff-coloured mummy-brown chukker-brown