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color + -ful
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colorful (comparative more colorful, superlative most colorful) (American spelling)
- 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.
- Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.
1895, H. Walter Staner, Henry Sturmey, The Autocar:One of the most colourful people in motor racing, he writes in a colourful manner.
- (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.
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possessing prominent and varied colors
- Albanian: shumëngjyrësh (sq)
- Armenian: գունագեղ (hy) (gunageġ)
- Breton: livek (br)
- Bulgarian: цветист (bg) (cvetist), колоритен (bg) (koloriten), пъ́стър (bg) (pǎ́stǎr)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 五顏六色/五颜六色 (ng5 ngaan4 luk6 sik1), 花哩碌 (faa1 li1 luk1)
- Mandarin: 豔/艳 (zh) (yàn)
- Cornish: liwus
- Czech: barevný (cs), pestrý (cs)
- Danish: farverig
- Dutch: kleurrijk (nl)
- Esperanto: bunta (eo)
- Finnish: värikäs (fi)
- French: coloré (fr)
- Galician: colorido
- Georgian: ჭრელი (ka) (č̣reli)
- German: bunt (de), kunterbunt (de), farbig (de), farbenprächtig, farbenfroh (de), farbenreich
- Greek: πολύχρωμος (el) (polýchromos)
- Hindi: रंगीन (hi) (raṅgīn)
- Hungarian: színes (hu)
- Icelandic: litríkur (is)
- Ido: koloroza (io)
- Irish: dathannach, ildaite
- Italian: colorato (it), variopinto (it), vivace (it)
- Japanese: カラフル (ja)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ئاڵوواڵا (alluwalla), ڕەنگاوڕەنگ (rengawrreng)
- Northern Kurdish: rengîn (ku)
- Latin: colōrātus m
- Manx: yl-ghaait
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fargerik (no)
- Nynorsk: fargerik
- Persian: رنگارنگ (fa) (rangârang)
- Plautdietsch: bunt
- Polish: kolorowy (pl), wielobarwny (pl), barwisty
- Portuguese: colorido (pt)
- Romanian: colorat (ro), multicolor (ro)
- Russian: разноцве́тный (ru) (raznocvétnyj), цвета́стый (ru) (cvetástyj) (rare word), я́ркий (ru) (járkij) (bright)
- Serbo-Croatian: šaren (sh), raznobojan (sh)
- Sinhalese: වර්ණවත් (si) (warṇawat)
- Spanish: lleno (es) m, de color, lleno de color
- Swahili: ya rangi nyingi
- Swedish: färgglad (sv), färgrik (sv)
- Telugu: రంగురంగుల (raṅguraṅgula)
- Turkish: renkli (tr), alaca (tr), rengarenk (tr)
- Ukrainian: різнокольоро́вий (riznokolʹoróvyj), барви́стий (uk) (barvýstyj)
- Urdu: رنگین (raṅgīn)
- Vietnamese: rực rỡ (vi), sặc sỡ (vi)
- Volapük: kölagik (vo)
- Welsh: lliwgar (cy)
- Yiddish: פֿילפֿאַרביק (filfarbik)
- Zazaki: kelebelek c
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interesting, multifaceted
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