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colourful

(US colorful)
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Definition of colourful

adjective

  • 1having much or varied colour; bright:a colourful array of fruit
  • 2full of interest; lively and exciting:a controversial and colourful character a colourful account
  • involving variously disreputable activities:the financier had had a colourful career
  • (of language) vulgar or rude:she made it clear, in colourful language, that she did not wish to talk to the police

Derivatives

colourfully

adverb

colourfulness

noun

colourful in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of colourful in the US English dictionary
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