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colorfully

colorfully adverb: in a colorful manner.

Adverb

colorfully (comparative more colorfully, superlative most colorfully)

  1. In a colorful manner.
    • Put slightly more colorfully, if a player left a strategy with his or her lawyer before the game began, the lawyer could play the game for the player without ever needing further instructions as to how to play.1992, Robert Gibbons, A Primer in Game Theory, Prentice-Hall, page 92

Forms of colorfully

comparativemore colorfully
superlativemost colorfully
alternative formcolourfully

Origin of colorfully

From colorful + -ly.

Questions about colorfully

What does colorfully mean?
Colorfully means in a colorful manner.
What part of speech is colorfully?
Colorfully is an adverb.

Words near colorfully in the dictionary

  1. colorfastnesses
  2. colorfield
  3. colorful
  4. colorful bluetail
  5. colorful bluetails
  6. colorfully
  7. colorfulness
  8. colorfulnesses
  9. colorgravure
  10. colorgravures
  11. colorguard

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