colourfull
colourfull is the archaic form of colourful.
colourfull is the nonstandard spelling of colourful.
Meaning of colourful
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
Forms of colourfull
| comparative | more colourfull |
|---|---|
| superlative | most colourfull |
Questions about colourfull
- What is colourfull the archaic form of?
- Colourfull is the archaic form of colourful.
Words near colourfull in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: colourfull (page history and authors); colourful (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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