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colourful

adj

Etymology

From colour + -ful.

Definitions

  1. British standard spelling of colorful.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at colourful. 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.

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

5 hops · closes at colourful

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