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rainbowed

rainbowed adjective: resembling, involving, or illuminated with a rainbow; patterned with the colours of the rainbow. Also the simple past and past participle of rainbow.

Adjective

rainbowed (comparative more rainbowed, superlative most rainbowed)

  1. Resembling, involving, or illuminated with a rainbow; patterned with the colours of the rainbow.
  2. (US, rare) Made up of several races or ethnicities; rainbow.
    • [> You may come to the point where you're accepted within the culture but you'll be racially different and never truly integrated. <]
      Depends upon how rainbowed the culture is. Here in America we're very rainbowed, such that the cultural norm is respect for differences.2003 October 10, Marvin Edwards, “Re: Affirmative Action”, in alt.religion.unitarian-univ (Usenet)

Also used as

rainbowed is also the simple past and past participle of rainbow.

Forms of rainbowed

comparativemore rainbowed
superlativemost rainbowed

Origin of rainbowed

From rainbow + -ed.

Questions about rainbowed

What does rainbowed mean?
Rainbowed means resembling, involving, or illuminated with a rainbow; patterned with the colours of the rainbow.
What part of speech is rainbowed?
Rainbowed is an adjective.

Words near rainbowed in the dictionary

  1. rainbow's ends
  2. rainbow-collar
  3. rainbow-colored
  4. rainbow-coloured
  5. rainbow-like
  6. rainbowed
  7. rainbowfish
  8. rainbowfishes
  9. rainbowing
  10. rainbowish
  11. rainbowism

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