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colory

colory is the alternative form of coloury.

Meaning of coloury

Adjective

coloury (comparative more coloury, superlative most coloury)

  1. Having plenty of colour; colorful.
    • If this is so, you will notice that the solidly painted square without darker coloured edge, is the least coloury of them all; and that the glazed square is the most vivid in colour.2012, Harold Speed, Oil Painting Techniques and Materials, page 131

Forms of colory

comparativemore colory
superlativemost colory

Questions about colory

What is colory the alternative form of?
Colory is the alternative form of coloury.

Words near colory in the dictionary

  1. colorwashing
  2. colorway
  3. colorways
  4. colorwise
  5. colorwork
  6. colory
  7. coloscope
  8. coloscopes
  9. coloscopic
  10. coloscopies
  11. coloscopy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colory (page history and authors); coloury (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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