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polychromatic

Syllables: pol·y·chro·mat·icUK/ˌpɒlikɹəʊˈmætɪk/US/ˌpɑlikɹəˈmætɪk/

polychromatic adjective: showing a variety, or a change, of colours; having many colours.

Adjective

polychromatic (not comparable)

  1. Showing a variety, or a change, of colours; having many colours.
    • With our water goggles adjusted we gazed at the fishes displaying their polychromatic scales to the sea world, as, with true Puka-Pukan languor, they finned from coral to coral.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 76
    • As I rounded the corner nearest my hotel the Afrite coachman of the polychromatic, nonpareil coat seized me, swung open the dungeony door of his peripatetic sarcophagus, flirted his feather duster and began his ritual: […]1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “(please specify the story)”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    motley
  2. Composed of more than one wavelength.

polychromatic meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

polychromatic in Tamil

பல குருமமுடைய, பன்னிறமுடைய

polychromatic in Tagalog

showing a variety of colours
damkulayin

Synonyms of polychromatic

Antonyms

Origin of polychromatic

From poly- + chromatic.

Words formed from polychromatic

Questions about polychromatic

What does polychromatic mean?
Polychromatic means showing a variety, or a change, of colours; having many colours.
What is polychromatic in Tamil?
Polychromatic in Tamil is பல குருமமுடைய, பன்னிறமுடைய. See Polychromatic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is polychromatic?
Polychromatic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce polychromatic?
Polychromatic is pronounced /ˌpɑlikɹəˈmætɪk/ (US).

Words near polychromatic in the dictionary

  1. polychroism
  2. polychroite
  3. polychromasia
  4. polychromate
  5. polychromates
  6. polychromatic
  7. polychromatic acid
  8. polychromatically
  9. polychromaticity
  10. polychromatism
  11. polychromatist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: polychromatic (page history and authors); polychromatic (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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