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colorful

adj
/ˈkʌl.ə.fl̩/UK/ˈkʌl.əɹ.fl̩/US/ˈkə.lə.fʊl/

Etymology

From color + -ful.

  1. derived from color
  2. derived from colour
  3. derived from colur
  4. inherited from colour
  5. suffixed as colorful — “color + -ful”

Definitions

  1. Possessing prominent and varied colors.

    • 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.
    • [Sen. John Curtis] gives colorful socks to other lawmakers on their birthdays.

  2. Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.

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

  3. Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language).

    • 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.

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Derived

colorfully, colorfulness, colourful bluetail, noncolorful, uncolorful

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at colorful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01colorful02distinctive03typical04expected05arrive06fame07rumour08indistinct09dim

A definitional loop anchored at colorful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at colorful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA