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colourfully

colourfully is the alternative spelling of colorfully.

Meaning of colorfully

Adverb

colorfully (comparative more colorfully, superlative most colorfully)

  1. In a colorful manner.
    • Put slightly more colorfully, if a player left a strategy with his or her lawyer before the game began, the lawyer could play the game for the player without ever needing further instructions as to how to play.1992, Robert Gibbons, A Primer in Game Theory, Prentice-Hall, page 92

Forms of colourfully

comparativemore colourfully
superlativemost colourfully

Origin of colourfully

From colourful + -ly.

Questions about colourfully

What is colourfully the alternative spelling of?
Colourfully is the alternative spelling of colorfully.

Words near colourfully in the dictionary

  1. colourfastness
  2. colourful
  3. colourful bluetail
  4. colourful bluetails
  5. colourfull
  6. colourfully
  7. colourfulness
  8. colourgravure
  9. colourgravures
  10. colourific
  11. colourimeter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colourfully (page history and authors); colorfully (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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