Adjectives for colorful

COLORFUL Synonyms: 65 Synonyms & Antonyms for COLORFUL

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adj.brilliant, intensely hued
adj.full of life, interesting

synonyms for colorful

bright
flashy
gaudy
hued
multicolored
rich
splashy
vibrant
vivid
chromatic
florid
gay
intense
jazzy
kaleidoscopic
loud
motley
picturesque
prismatic
psychedelic
showy
variegated

See also synonyms for: colorfully / colorfulness

distinctive
glamorous
lively
rich
unusual
vivid
brave
characterful
flaky
gay
graphic
jazzy
picturesque
stimulating

On this page you'll find 87 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to colorful, such as: bright, flashy, gaudy, hued, multicolored, and rich.

antonyms for colorful

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dull
pale
plain
simple
weak
boring
colorless
drab
dreary
faded
lifeless
uncolored
uninteresting

common
dull
normal
standard
weak
boring
colorless
drab
dreary
faded
lifeless
plain
uncolored
uninteresting

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How to use colorful in a sentence

Industry members use an assortment of colorful names to refer to the group.

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Jupiter is well known for its iconic, colorful banded clouds and its great red spot.

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The case also includes a number of colorful details about how Bannon and Kolfage spent their ill-gotten gains and how they got caught.

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The Banana Lounge in Building 26 has chests full of free fruit, and a colorful piano outside.

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You may not have tailoring expertise under your belt, but to get a little Satō in your step, go for soft, classic fabrics with a fun, colorful lining.

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From lobotomies to the colorful promise of brain scans, the field tends to move with huge surges of uncritical optimism that later proves to be unfounded, she says—and digital phenotyping could be simply the latest example.

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If all goes to plan, the cotton fiber will be just as colorful as the petri dish tissue.

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Hole punch the top and string some colorful ribbons through for good measure.

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These colorful arcs usually develop in summer following an afternoon storm.

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A sort of anti-aurora can show up as inky patches among the colorful glow of auroral ribbons.

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WORDS RELATED TO COLORFUL

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strong
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psychedelic
razzle-dazzle
rich
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sharp
showy

tinged
tinted

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intense
psychedelic
razzle-dazzle
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a far cry from
altered
antithetic
at odds
at variance
changed
clashing
colorful
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contradistinctive
contrary
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contrastive
deviating
differential
discrepant
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diverse
incommensurable
incomparable
inconsistent
individual
like night and day
mismatched
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offbeat
opposed
other
otherwise
particular
peculiar
poles apart
single
unalike
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unrelated
unsimilar
variant
various

80 Synonyms & Antonyms of COLORFUL

colorful

as in colored

marked by a variety of usually vivid colors the colorful robes and blankets of the Native Americans of the Southwest

colored
varied
vibrant
rainbow
various
multicolored
striped
brilliant
kaleidoscopic
varicolored
bright
variegated
polychromatic
prismatic
polychrome
motley
chromatic
multihued
dotted
iridescent
gaudy
showy
flashy
loud
garish
patterned
splashy
brave
spotted
marbled
checkered
opalescent
plaid
speckled
dappled
mottled
striated
bicolored
flecked
gay
dapple
plaided
specked
banded
parti-colored
dichromatic
pied
tricolor
piebald
streaked
trichromatic
two-toned
pinto
bichrome
barred
tricolored
two-tone
parti-color
bicolor
brindled
brindle

colorless
solid
monochromatic
achromatic
gray
faded
neutral
grey
dull
bleached
monotone
pale
monochromic
pallid
faint
decolorized
washed-out
self-colored
unbrilliant

colorless
solid
monochromatic
achromatic
gray
faded
neutral
grey
dull
bleached
monotone
pale
monochromic
pallid
faint
decolorized
washed-out
self-colored
unbrilliant

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Synonyms and antonyms "colorful" - analysis and associations to the word colorful. Morphological analysis and declension of words

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feminine
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Translation of colorful

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English
German
French

colorful - bright
- colorful ceremony - colorful ceremony
- colorful costumes - bright costumes
- vivid description
picturesque — picturesque
- picturesque town
ink - ink, varnish
- inking unit
- paint layer - paint layer
colorific
graphic - graphic

farbenfroh - bright
- colorful number - farbenfrohe Zimmer
farbig - bright
- colorful light - farbiges Licht
farbenprächtig - bright
farbenreich - colorful
malerisch - colorful
bildhaft - visual
bildlich - graphic
markant - bright

coloré - bright, colorful, spectacular
- colorful mosaics - mosaïques colorées
haut en couleur - bright
multicolore multicolor
richement coloré

Relationship with other words

Words ending in -colorful:

colorless
paintwork
multicolour
single color

tricolor

What can be done colorfully?

describe describe describe paint describe describe describe describe describe describe represent depict represent represent describe draw comment tell reproduce show swear depict draw express express reflect broadcast testify imagine expound describe decorate imagine name explain retell draw up convey write explain looming express express note show stand out illustrate shimmer expose sign reflect reflect exploding explode look flow inform express chant characterize introduce yourself tell praise explain explain comment demonstrate reflect look

Case	Question	Single			Multip.
Case	Question	Male	Medium	Female	Multip.
Nominative	(who, what?)	colorful	colorful	colorful	colorful
Genitive	(who, what?)	colorful		colorful	colorful
Dative	(to whom, what?)	colorful		colorful	colorful
Accusative	(who, what?)	colorful		colorful	colorful
Creative	(by whom, what?)	colorful		colorful	colorful
Prepositional	(about whom, about what?)	colorful		colorful	colorful