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colourfast

colourfast is the alternative spelling of colorfast.

Meaning of colorfast

Adjective

colorfast (comparative more colorfast, superlative most colorfast)

  1. Having colors that have been dyed or applied to the material in a way that will prevent them from being washed out, running, or fading.

Forms of colourfast

comparativemore colourfast
superlativemost colourfast

Origin of colourfast

From colour + fast.

Words formed from colourfast

Questions about colourfast

What is colourfast the alternative spelling of?
Colourfast is the alternative spelling of colorfast.

Words near colourfast in the dictionary

  1. coloureds
  2. colourer
  3. colourers
  4. colourest
  5. coloureth
  6. colourfast
  7. colourfastness
  8. colourful
  9. colourful bluetail
  10. colourful bluetails
  11. colourfull

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colourfast (page history and authors); colorfast (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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