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Definition of colourful in English: colourful(US colorful) adjective ˈkʌləfʊlˈkʌləf(ə)lˈkələrfəl 1Having much or varied colour; bright. a colourful array of fruit Example sentencesExamples - The company produces hand-made chocolates in bright colourful wrapping.
- One side room has a varied and colourful display of period costume.
- It's going to be a really colourful, bright musical set in Brazil in the 1960s.
- My whole brain seemed to fizz and the world appeared to be a brighter, more colourful place.
- The show opened with colourful sets and bright costumes.
- The local committee have asked you all to make a special effort over the next two weeks to have Newport looking clean and tidy, bright and colourful.
- The wagons were all unpainted and plain, making them look dull compared to the bright colourful tents.
- It's bright and shiny and colourful, and it frequently makes me smile, and it's honest about its utter superficiality.
- A parent, who is a costumer for a theatre company, provided many of the bright, colourful costumes.
- All of the costumes for the country dances were bright, colourful and really looked the part.
- The family show includes colourful costumes, lively characters, music, comedy and audience participation.
- The house had never seemed so bright and colourful due to the many ribbons and banners.
- They produced bright, colourful paintings of chariots, horses, temples and other scenes associated with life in the time of the Romans.
- It is wacky and different, bright and colourful.
- Winters were always grey here, summers were always bright and colourful, at least in my memory.
- Sunday's parade promises to be the biggest, brightest and most colourful parade ever in the county town.
- This is a lovely book to browse through - full of inviting, colourful pictures and uncluttered text.
- The views are breathtaking, and in summer the garden itself is very colourful and bright.
- Their living quarters were bright and colourful; they had luxurious food, and had access to the outside world.
- The scenery was bright and colourful, as were the costumes.
Synonyms brightly coloured, bright-coloured, deep-coloured, brilliant, glowing, radiant, vivid, rich, vibrant eye-catching, flamboyant, showy, gaudy, glaring, garish, flashy multicoloured, multicolour, many-coloured, many-hued, rainbow, rainbow-like, varicoloured, variegated, harlequin, motley, prismatic, polychromatic, psychedelic informal jazzy, (looking) like an explosion in a paint factory 2Full of interest; lively and exciting. a controversial and colourful character Example sentencesExamples - The National University of Colombia, in Bogota, is a colourful and lively place.
- Along the way, he meets a long line of interesting and colourful characters.
- I duly left school and became a typist in the Mines Department where I met some interesting and colourful characters.
- It was a burst of colourful activity that heralded the arrival of the digital channel on television scene.
- This should preferably be a person about whom mysterious questions can be raised, someone with an interesting or colorful background.
- Miss Annear's narrative, lively and colourful, flows right along.
- His sax playing was colourful, strong and exciting.
- His lyrics are always childlike and unpretentious, evoking ridiculous pictures and colourful characters.
- Cardington has had a colourful past, full of triumph and disaster.
- A number of businesses and local organisations also took part in a very lively and colourful occasion.
- First, this nuanced, detailed and ever colorful account of Parisian life requires discussion.
- In their pursuit of their rights, including to marry, they have been determined but have made their campaign fun, lively, colorful and open to others.
Synonyms vivid, graphic, lively, animated, dramatic, striking, arresting, picturesque, interesting, stimulating, fascinating, scintillating, rich, evocative, detailed, highly coloured - 2.1 Involving variously disreputable activities.
the financier had had a colourful career Example sentencesExamples - It's a conscientious and enjoyable peek at the life and career of one of our most colourful politicians.
- His current advisers fear that his colourful past and his liberal social positions could scupper his candidacy.
- His footballing career has been almost as colourful as his business affairs.
- The dramatic announcement brings to an end one of the most controversial and colourful careers in Scottish football.
- The axe finally swung on a career, one can only describe as short and colourful, but great while it lasted.
- His career might politely be described as colourful.
- But it has often been his colourful private life as much as his promising political career that has ensured he is never far from the media spotlight.
- However, as we all know, he has had a colourful past.
- 2.2 (of language) vulgar or rude.
she made it clear, in colourful language, that she did not wish to talk to the police Example sentencesExamples - I then called back and in slightly more colorful language asked him why he had hung up on me and whether he would identify himself.
- There was silence and then she let out another stream of colourful language.
- I cannot repeat what was said to him because it's too disturbing and contains some pretty colourful language.
- It appears to me wholly regrettable and unnecessary that such colourful language was used in the first press release.
- This version has had some of the more colourful language removed.
- I am older and I hope wiser and, as the nominee of my party, I have an obligation to use less colourful language.
- He is also sorry for the colourful language used to emphasise the point.
- Despite her colourful language, which may have owed something to her Australian origins, she was a devout Catholic.
- I think it is probably more colourful language than is merited.
- Admittedly their language is rather colourful, but nothing worse than you'd hear in the first minute of Four Weddings And A Funeral.
- He uttered a crude four-letter curse that would rival any sailor's colorful language, then tried to roll over again.
- Occasional outbreaks of colourful language aside, the exchanges seemed surprisingly civilised.
- This, of course, is what in essence he had told Richardson, although in more colourful language.
- Mr Berger is a straight talker and uses some colourful language.
- Here's Howard Jacobson, and a warning about some colourful language.
- My language was colourful and consisted of mostly four-letter words.
- I said a few colorful words in our language, making him laugh.
- And there's some very colorful language in some of those opinions.
- Profanities didn't actually litter the production but the episodes did feature some of the most colourful language ever heard on TV.
- The colourful language made for entertaining viewing.
Synonyms rude, indecent, indelicate, offensive, distasteful, obnoxious, risqué, suggestive, racy, earthy, off colour, coarse, crude, ribald, rabelaisian, bawdy, obscene, lewd, salacious, licentious, vile, depraved, sordid, smutty, dirty, filthy, pornographic, x-rated, scatological
Derivatives adverb ˈkʌləf(ə)li Stuart talks freely and very colourfully about facing the gallows, his life in jail and the fortunate turn of events that enabled him to transform his life. Example sentencesExamples - One often comes across pictures or paintings that portray colourfully attired village women gracefully carrying water pots on their heads.
- It began at around noon when a group of about 100 colourfully dressed people set off from Princes Street towards the financial district, banging drums and waving black flags.
- The new booklet, which is beautifully and colourfully produced, draws together for the first time, details of the many natural attractions and significant buildings of West Waterford.
- Every summer, the streets of Edmonton become filled with a myriad of colourfully costumed characters singing and dancing their blues away during one of the city's most popular street festivals.
noun During my journey into work this morning I was almost blinded by the relative colourfulness and brightness of London. Example sentencesExamples - By contrast, but as impactful, is his still life - completely different in its striking colourfulness.
- They wanted to reinvigorate painting with the colourfulness, naturalism, and truthfulness of the early Italian painters.
- Their presence and their industry have done a lot for Bedford, and add to the colourfulness of this cosmopolitan town.
- Their colorfulness, intelligence, and entertaining qualities make toucans one of the most amusing species of birds to own.
Definition of colorful in US English: colorful(British colourful) adjectiveˈkələrfəlˈkələrfəl 1Having much or varied color; bright. a colorful array of fruit Example sentencesExamples - Winters were always grey here, summers were always bright and colourful, at least in my memory.
- A parent, who is a costumer for a theatre company, provided many of the bright, colourful costumes.
- It's bright and shiny and colourful, and it frequently makes me smile, and it's honest about its utter superficiality.
- It's going to be a really colourful, bright musical set in Brazil in the 1960s.
- The company produces hand-made chocolates in bright colourful wrapping.
- The scenery was bright and colourful, as were the costumes.
- Sunday's parade promises to be the biggest, brightest and most colourful parade ever in the county town.
- It is wacky and different, bright and colourful.
- They produced bright, colourful paintings of chariots, horses, temples and other scenes associated with life in the time of the Romans.
- The wagons were all unpainted and plain, making them look dull compared to the bright colourful tents.
- The show opened with colourful sets and bright costumes.
- This is a lovely book to browse through - full of inviting, colourful pictures and uncluttered text.
- The house had never seemed so bright and colourful due to the many ribbons and banners.
- My whole brain seemed to fizz and the world appeared to be a brighter, more colourful place.
- The family show includes colourful costumes, lively characters, music, comedy and audience participation.
- One side room has a varied and colourful display of period costume.
- All of the costumes for the country dances were bright, colourful and really looked the part.
- Their living quarters were bright and colourful; they had luxurious food, and had access to the outside world.
- The views are breathtaking, and in summer the garden itself is very colourful and bright.
- The local committee have asked you all to make a special effort over the next two weeks to have Newport looking clean and tidy, bright and colourful.
Synonyms brightly coloured, bright-coloured, deep-coloured, brilliant, glowing, radiant, vivid, rich, vibrant 2Full of interest; lively and exciting. a controversial and colorful character a colorful account of the meeting Example sentencesExamples - The National University of Colombia, in Bogota, is a colourful and lively place.
- In their pursuit of their rights, including to marry, they have been determined but have made their campaign fun, lively, colorful and open to others.
- A number of businesses and local organisations also took part in a very lively and colourful occasion.
- First, this nuanced, detailed and ever colorful account of Parisian life requires discussion.
- Along the way, he meets a long line of interesting and colourful characters.
- His lyrics are always childlike and unpretentious, evoking ridiculous pictures and colourful characters.
- It was a burst of colourful activity that heralded the arrival of the digital channel on television scene.
- Miss Annear's narrative, lively and colourful, flows right along.
- I duly left school and became a typist in the Mines Department where I met some interesting and colourful characters.
- Cardington has had a colourful past, full of triumph and disaster.
- His sax playing was colourful, strong and exciting.
- This should preferably be a person about whom mysterious questions can be raised, someone with an interesting or colorful background.
Synonyms vivid, graphic, lively, animated, dramatic, striking, arresting, picturesque, interesting, stimulating, fascinating, scintillating, rich, evocative, detailed, highly coloured - 2.1 (of a person's life or background) involving variously disreputable activities.
he gained a playboy reputation during a colorful bachelorhood Example sentencesExamples - His current advisers fear that his colourful past and his liberal social positions could scupper his candidacy.
- His footballing career has been almost as colourful as his business affairs.
- It's a conscientious and enjoyable peek at the life and career of one of our most colourful politicians.
- The axe finally swung on a career, one can only describe as short and colourful, but great while it lasted.
- But it has often been his colourful private life as much as his promising political career that has ensured he is never far from the media spotlight.
- However, as we all know, he has had a colourful past.
- The dramatic announcement brings to an end one of the most controversial and colourful careers in Scottish football.
- His career might politely be described as colourful.
- 2.2 (of language) vulgar or rude.
colorful words usually impolite in public meetings Example sentencesExamples - Despite her colourful language, which may have owed something to her Australian origins, she was a devout Catholic.
- He uttered a crude four-letter curse that would rival any sailor's colorful language, then tried to roll over again.
- I cannot repeat what was said to him because it's too disturbing and contains some pretty colourful language.
- I am older and I hope wiser and, as the nominee of my party, I have an obligation to use less colourful language.
- He is also sorry for the colourful language used to emphasise the point.
- This version has had some of the more colourful language removed.
- Profanities didn't actually litter the production but the episodes did feature some of the most colourful language ever heard on TV.
- I think it is probably more colourful language than is merited.
- My language was colourful and consisted of mostly four-letter words.
- There was silence and then she let out another stream of colourful language.
- Admittedly their language is rather colourful, but nothing worse than you'd hear in the first minute of Four Weddings And A Funeral.
- This, of course, is what in essence he had told Richardson, although in more colourful language.
- The colourful language made for entertaining viewing.
- It appears to me wholly regrettable and unnecessary that such colourful language was used in the first press release.
- I said a few colorful words in our language, making him laugh.
- And there's some very colorful language in some of those opinions.
- Here's Howard Jacobson, and a warning about some colourful language.
- Mr Berger is a straight talker and uses some colourful language.
- I then called back and in slightly more colorful language asked him why he had hung up on me and whether he would identify himself.
- Occasional outbreaks of colourful language aside, the exchanges seemed surprisingly civilised.
Synonyms rude, indecent, indelicate, offensive, distasteful, obnoxious, risqué, suggestive, racy, earthy, off colour, colourful, coarse, crude, ribald, rabelaisian, bawdy, obscene, lewd, salacious, licentious, vile, depraved, sordid, smutty, dirty, filthy, pornographic, x-rated, scatological
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