colorful

colorful
    adj 1: having striking color; "colorful autumn leaves" [syn:
           {colorful}, {colourful}] [ant: {colorless}, {colourless}]
    2: striking in variety and interest; "a colorful period of
       history"; "a colorful character"; "colorful language" [syn:
       {colorful}, {colourful}] [ant: {colorless}, {colourless}]
    3: having color or a certain color; sometimes used in
       combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color";
       "amber-colored heads of grain" [syn: {colored}, {coloured},
       {colorful}] [ant: {uncolored}, {uncoloured}]
    

colorful \colorful\ adj.
   1. having striking color. Opposite of {colorless}.

   Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
         shot}; {deep, rich}; {flaming}; {fluorescent, glowing};
         {prismatic}; {psychedelic}; {red, ruddy, flushed,
         empurpled}]

   Syn: colourful.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of {colorless}
      or {dull}. [Narrower terms: {brave, fine, gay, glorious};
      {flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained}; {flashy, gaudy,
      jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; {picturesque}]
      [WordNet 1.5]

   3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
      as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of {colorless} and
      {monochrome}.

   Note: [Narrower terms: {tinted}; {touched, tinged}; {amber,
         brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; {amethyst}; {auburn,
         reddish-brown}; {aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden};
         {azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue}; {bicolor,
         bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue,
         bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful,
         blush-colored, rosy}; {bottle-green}; {bronze, bronzy};
         {brown, brownish, dark-brown}; {buff}; {canary,
         canary-yellow}; {caramel, caramel brown}; {carnation};
         {chartreuse}; {chestnut}; {dun}; {earth-colored,
         earthlike}; {fuscous}; {green, greenish, light-green,
         dark-green}; {jade, jade-green}; {khaki}; {lavender,
         lilac}; {mauve}; {moss green, mosstone}; {motley,
         multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
         painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
         varicolored, varicoloured}; {mousy, mouse-colored};
         {ocher, ochre}; {olive-brown}; {olive-drab}; {olive};
         {orange, orangish}; {peacock-blue}; {pink, pinkish};
         {purple, violet, purplish}; {red, blood-red, carmine,
         cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
         scarlet}; {red, reddish}; {rose, roseate}; {rose-red};
         {rust, rusty, rust-colored}; {snuff, snuff-brown,
         snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
         snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel,
         brownish-orange}; {stone, stone-gray}; {straw-color,
         straw-colored, straw-coloured}; {tan}; {tangerine};
         {tawny}; {ultramarine}; {umber}; {vermilion,
         vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; {yellow, yellowish};
         {yellow-green}; {avocado}; {bay}; {beige}; {blae
         bluish-black or gray-blue)}; {coral}; {creamy}; {cress
         green, cresson, watercress}; {hazel}; {honey,
         honey-colored}; {hued(postnominal)}; {magenta};
         {maroon}; {pea-green}; {russet}; {sage, sage-green};
         {sea-green}] [Also See: {chromatic}, {colored}, {dark},
         {light}.]

   Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
        [WordNet 1.5]
    

74 Moby Thesaurus words for "colorful":
      bicolor, bicolored, blatant, brave, brazen, brazenfaced, bright,
      bright-hued, brilliant, burning, colory, crazy, crude, daedal,
      deep-colored, dichromatic, divers-colored, exotic, extravagant,
      flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, florid, garish, gaudy, gay,
      gay-colored, glaring, gorgeous, harlequin, high-colored, intense,
      kaleidoscopic, loud, lurid, many-colored, medley, meretricious,
      motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, obtrusive,
      parti-color, parti-colored, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic,
      prismal, rich, rich-colored, screaming, sensational, shameless,
      shot, shot through, showy, spectacular, spectral, splashy, tawdry,
      thunder and lightning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor,
      tricolored, two-tone, varicolored, variegated, versicolor,
      versicolored, vivid, vulgar