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colorful

adjectifattesté dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈkʌl.ə.fl̩//
  • États-Unis//ˈkʌl.əɹ.fl̩//
  • //ˈkə.lə.fʊl//
  • //kəˈlɜʳ.fʊl//
  • /[kɐ.lɜ(ː)(ɾ).fʊl]/

Possessing prominent and varied colors.

adjectif

  1. 1

    Possessing prominent and varied colors.

    a colourful display of flowers

    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.

    [Sen. John Curtis] gives colorful socks to other lawmakers on their birthdays.

    Blue and gold macaws are not native to Caracas. But over the past two decades their numbers in Venezuela's capital have skyrocketed, with hundreds of these birds now flying freely across the city, and dazzling locals with their colorful feathers and peculiar calls.

  2. 2

    Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.

    He had a colourful career in the music industry.

    One of the most colourful people in motor racing, he writes in a colourful manner.

  3. 3

    Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language).

    Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.

Étymologie

From color + -ful.

Formes

comparatif
more colorful
superlatif
most colorful
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).