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colourous

colourous is the rare spelling of colorous.

Meaning of colorous

Adjective

colorous (comparative more colorous, superlative most colorous)

  1. Full of colour.

Forms of colourous

comparativemore colourous
superlativemost colourous

Origin of colourous

From colorous, with the spelling revised to accord with British English colour + -ous.

Questions about colourous

What is colourous the rare spelling of?
Colourous is the rare spelling of colorous.

Words near colourous in the dictionary

  1. colourman
  2. colourmap
  3. colourmaps
  4. colourmen
  5. colourology
  6. colourous
  7. colourphobia
  8. colourpoint
  9. Colourpoint Persian
  10. Colourpoint Persians
  11. colourpoints

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colourous (page history and authors); colorous (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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