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colorous

colorous adjective: full of colour.

Adjective

colorous (comparative more colorous, superlative most colorous)

  1. Full of colour.

Forms of colorous

comparativemore colorous
superlativemost colorous
alternative formcolourous

Origin of colorous

From color + -ous.

Questions about colorous

What does colorous mean?
Colorous means full of colour.
What part of speech is colorous?
Colorous is an adjective.

Words near colorous in the dictionary

  1. colorometrically
  2. coloron
  3. colorons
  4. coloroto
  5. colorotos
  6. colorous
  7. colorphobia
  8. colorphobic
  9. colorpoint
  10. colorpoints
  11. colorpuncture

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