colorful

English

Alternative forms

• colourful

Etymology

color +‎ -ful

Adjective

colorful (not comparable)

1. Possessing prominent and varied colors.
   • 1895, The Annual of the British School at Athens

     It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.

2. Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.
   • 1895, H. Walter Staner and Henry Sturmey, The Autocar:

     One of the most colourful people in motor racing, he writes in a colourful manner.

3. (euphemistic) Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language).
   • 2002, news.bbc.co.uk

     Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.

Translations

possessing prominent and varied colors

Albanian: shumëngjyrësh (sq) Chinese: 豔 (yàn) Danish: farverig (da) Dutch: kleurrijk (nl) Finnish: värikäs (fi) French: coloré (fr) German: bunt, farbig; farbenprächtig, farbenfroh, kunterbunt Hungarian: színes (hu) Kurdish: rengîn, ئاڵوواڵا, ڕه‌نگاوڕه‌نگ

Manx: yl-ghaait (gv) Norwegian: fargerik (no) Polish: kolorowy m., kolorowa f., kolorowe n., wielobarwny (pl) m. Russian: разноцветный (raznocv'étnyj), цветастый (cv'etástyj), яркий (járkij) Spanish: lleno m., de color, lleno de color (es) Swedish: färggrann (sv) Telugu: రంగురంగుల (te) (rangurangula) Turkish: renkli (tr) Vietnamese: mầu mè

interesting, multifaceted

Chinese: 丰富多彩 (fēngfùduōcǎi) Danish: farverig (da) Finnish: värikäs (fi) French: coloré (fr)

Russian: колоритный (ru) (kolorítnyj), яркий (ru) (járkij) Spanish: lleno m., de color Vietnamese: mầu mè

profane

Danish: blomstrende (da)

Finnish: värikäs (fi) Spanish: florido (es)

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Hindi: रंगीन (rangeen) Persian: رنگین (rangin)