| 单词 | colorful |
| 释义 | colorful (once / 2585 pages) adj Things that are colorful are brightly colored or have many different colors. A brilliant red cardinal is a colorful bird, while a brown sparrow isn't quite as colorful. Some nutrition experts recommend eating a colorful diet, including vegetables and fruits of varied colors for optimum health. A colorful bouquet of flowers would be equally varied, perhaps with white daisies, pink roses, blue violets, and yellow carnations. Brilliantly colored things are colorful too, like a tree with orange leaves in the fall. Figuratively, colorful language is rude or coarse, and a colorful group of friends is interesting and varied. WORD FAMILYcolorful: colorfully+/color: bicolor, coloration, colored, colorful, coloring, colorise, colorist, colorize, colorless, colors, decolor, discolor, multi-color, multicolor/coloration: colorations/colored: bicolored, coloreds, multi-colored, multicolored, uncolored/coloring: colorings/colorise: decolorise, discolorise/colorist: colorists/colorize: colorized, colorizing, decolorize, discolorize/colorless: colorlessly, colorlessness/decolor: decolored/decolorise: decolorised, decolorising/decolorize: decolorized, decolorizing/discolor: discoloration, discolored, discoloring, discolors/discoloration: discolorations USAGE EXAMPLESThese tiny and colorfully painted sanctuaries are found throughout Terceira. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) With gangly limbs, big, expressive eyes and an entire vocabulary’s worth of colorful grunts and groans at her disposal, she’s equally good at nonverbal comedy. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) They used colorful metaphors describing death, agony and decay to describe the ties. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination Syn|Ant colored, coloured crimson, flushed, red, red-faced, reddened (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion bay(used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color bichrome, bicolor, bicolored, bicolour, bicoloured, dichromatichaving two colors black, blackened(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood blue-floweredhaving blue flowers brightly-colored, brightly-colouredhaving a bright color buff-colored, buff-colouredhaving a buff color chestnut-colored, chestnut-colouredhaving the brown color of chestnuts chocolate-colored, chocolate-colouredhaving the color of dark chocolate cinnamon colored, cinnamon coloured, cinnamon-colored, cinnamon-colouredhaving the color of cinnamon cinnamon-redred tinged with cinnamon cream-colored, creamy-colored, creamy-whitehaving the color of fresh cream dark-colored, dark-coloured, dusky-colored, dusky-colouredhaving a dark color dun-colored, dun-colouredhaving a dun color fawn-colored, fawn-colouredhaving the color of a fawn flame-colored, flame-colouredhaving the brilliant orange-red color of flames flesh-colored, flesh-colouredhaving a bright red or pinkish color garnet-colored, garnet-colouredhaving the color of garnet ginger, gingery(used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color gold-colored, gold-colouredhaving the color of gold honey-colored, honey-colouredhaving the color of honey indigohaving a color between blue and violet lead-colored, lead-colouredhaving the color of lead liver, liver-coloredhaving a reddish-brown color metal-colored, metal-coloured, metallic-colored, metallic-colouredhaving a metallic color monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, monochromoushaving or appearing to have only one color calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicolouredhaving sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly neutral-colored, neutral-colouredhaving a color that does not attract attention olive-colored, olive-colouredhaving the color of green olives orange-colored, orange-coloured, orange-huedhaving the color of ripe oranges orange-floweredhaving orange flowers pale-colored, pale-huedhaving a pale color pastel-coloredhaving pale delicate colors peach-coloredhaving the color of a ripe peach polychromatic, polychrome, polychromichaving or exhibiting many colors purple-floweredhaving purple flowers red-floweredhaving red flowers roan(used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey rose-colored, rosy-coloredhaving a rose color rust-coloredhaving the brown color of rust silver-coloredhaving the color of polished silver straw-colored, straw-colouredhaving the color of dry straw tawny-colored, tawny-colouredhaving a tawny color trichromatic, trichrome, tricolorhaving or involving three colors violet-colored, violet-coloured, violet-floweredhaving a violet color violet-purplelight violet and dark purple uncolored, uncoloured without color achromatic, neutralhaving no hue achromatoushaving little or inadequate color achromic, achromoushaving no color 2adj having striking color colorful autumn leaves Syn|Ant colourful chromatic being or having or characterized by hue ablazeresembling flame in brilliance or color bright, brilliant, vividhaving striking color changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shotvarying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles deep, richstrong; intense fluorescentbrilliantly colored and apparently giving off light prismaticexhibiting spectral colors formed by refraction of light through a prism psychedelichaving the vivid colors and bizarre patterns associated with psychedelic states shrillof colors that are bright and gaudy vibrantof colors that are bright and striking colorless, colourless weak in color; not colorful achromatic, neutralhaving no hue ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, whiteanemic looking from illness or emotion bleached, faded, washed-out, washyhaving lost freshness or brilliance of color drab, sober, somber, sombrelacking brightness or color; dull dulled, greyeddeprived of color blanched, etiolate, etiolated(especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light luridghastly pale pale, pallid, wanabnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress pastelike, pastyresembling paste in color; pallid prefaded(of fabric or clothing) having been given a faded (weathered) appearance by artificial means waxen, waxlike, waxyhaving the paleness of wax white, whitened(of hair) having lost its color 3adj striking in variety and interest a colorful period of history a colorful character colorful language Syn|Ant colourful brave, braw, gay brightly colored and showy flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty(used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display many-sidedfull of variety or interest noisyattracting attention by showiness or bright colors picturesquestrikingly expressive colorless, colourless lacking in variety and interest neutrallacking distinguishing quality or characteristics pale, pallidlacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness dulllacking in liveliness or animation |
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