colourful

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colourful

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From colour + -ful.

adjective more colourful · most colourful

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.

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Closest in meaning: colorful, iridescent, fluorescent, bright, brilliant, ablaze, prismatic, flaming, psychedelic, chatoyant, changeable, deep, vivid, shot, rich, multi-coloured

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@misc{colourful_2026,
  title = {colourful},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/colourful},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}