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col‧our‧ful British English ; colorful American English
1 having bright colours or a lot of different colours : 
a colourful display of flowerscolorful costumes
a colourful display of flowerscolorful costumes2 interesting, exciting, and full of variety
colourful character/figure (=someone who is interesting and unusual)
3 colourful language, speech etc uses a lot of swearing
—colourfully adverb
WORD FOCUS: colour WORD FOCUS: colour 
a particular kind of colour: shade, hint, hue
words for describing dark colours: dark, deep, rich
words for describing light colours: light, pale, soft, pastel
words for describing bright colours: bright, brilliant, vivid, garish disapproving, gaudy disapproving
having a lot of colours: colourful, multicoloured British English/multicolored American English
➔ See also colour
