variegated
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Variegate \Va"ri*e*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Variegated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Variegating}.] [L. variegatus, p. p. of
variegare to variegate; varius various + agere to move, make.
See {Various}, and {Agent}.]
To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different
colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with
marble of different colors.
[1913 Webster]
The shells are filled with a white spar, which
variegates and adds to the beauty of the stone.
--Woodward.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
165 Moby Thesaurus words for "variegated":
assorted, at odds, at variance, bicolor, bicolored, brindled,
calico, capricious, changeable, changing, checked, checkered,
choppy, chromatic, cold, colorful, colorific, coloring, colory,
contrary, contrasted, contrasting, cool, crazy, daedal, dappled,
departing, deviating, deviative, deviatory, dichromatic, different,
differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discolor,
discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined,
disorderly, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct,
distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers,
divers-colored, diverse, diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic,
flecked, freaked, glowing, harlequin, harmonious, heterogeneous,
impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous,
inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, inharmonious,
irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, kaleidoscopic, many,
many-colored, marbled, matching, medley, mercurial, monochromatic,
monochrome, monochromic, motley, mottle, mottled, multicolor,
multicolored, multicolorous, multifarious, multihued, mutable,
nacreous, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, opalescent,
opaline, parti-color, parti-colored, piebald, pied, pigmentary,
pinto, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, polychromatic,
polychrome, polychromic, prismal, prismatic, ragged, rainbow,
rough, separate, separated, several, shot, shot through, skewbald,
spasmodic, spattered, speckled, spectral, sporadic, spotted,
stippled, streaked, thunder and lightning, tinctorial, tingent,
toning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone,
unconformable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox,
unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variant,
varicolored, varied, variform, various, varying, versicolor,
versicolored, warm, wavering, widely apart, worlds apart
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