colourful
colourful adjective: british standard spelling of colorful.
Adjective
colourful (comparative more colourful, superlative most colourful)
- British standard spelling of colorful.
- It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.1895, The Annual of the British School at Athens
- One of the most colourful people in motor racing, he writes in a colourful manner.1895, H. Walter Staner, Henry Sturmey, The Autocar
colourful meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
colourful in Hindi
- colourful
- रंगदार raṅgdār
colourful in Tamil
- வண்ணமயமான, வண்ணமயமானது, வண்ணமயமானவை
colourful in Marathi
- रंगीत, रंगीबेरंगी
colourful in Urdu
- colourful
- رنگیلا raṅgīlā
More languagesFewer languages
- colourful in Bengali
- রঙিন, রঙিন রঙিন
- colourful in Telugu
- రంగురంగుల
- colourful in Malayalam
- നിറമുള്ള, വർണ്ണി, വർണ്ണാഭമായ, കംബര
- colourful in Kannada
- ವರ್ಣರಂಜಿತ, ವರ್ಣಮಯ, ಬಣ್ಣಬಣ್ಣದ
- colourful in Punjabi
- ਰੰਗੀਨ, ਰੰਗਦਾਰ, ਰੰਗ-ਬਿਰੰਗੇ
- colourful in Gujarati
- રંગબેરંગી, રંગીન
- colourful in Odia
- ରଙ୍ଗୀନ, ରଙ୍ଗିନ
- colourful in Nepali
- रङ्गीचङ्गी raṅgīcaṅgī
Examples of colourful in a sentence
- Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.2002 July 14, “Did Hussain go too far?”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2019:
- And Netherlands, backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2022:
Forms of colourful
| comparative | more colourful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most colourful |
Origin of colourful
From colour + -ful.
Words formed from colourful
Phrases with colourful
Questions about colourful
- What does colourful mean?
- Colourful means british standard spelling of colorful.
- What is colourful in Hindi?
- Colourful in Hindi is रंगदार (raṅgdār). See Colourful meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use colourful in a sentence?
- Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.
- What part of speech is colourful?
- Colourful is an adjective.
Words near colourful in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: colourful (page history and authors); रंगदार (Hindi) (page history and authors); colourful (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colourful (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); رنگیلا (Urdu) (page history and authors); colourful (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colourful (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colourful (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); colourful (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colourful (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colourful (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colourful (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); रङ्गीचङ्गी (Nepali) (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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