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rainbowy

rainbowy adjective: resembling a rainbow.

Adjective

rainbowy (comparative more rainbowy, superlative most rainbowy)

  1. Resembling a rainbow.
    • a misty glory, an intangible rainbowy lustre1828-1830, William Taylor, Historic Survey of German Poetry
    • His shape was all human except the head and hands and feet; every bit of him was covered with fish-scales all rainbowy.1927, Edward Lucas White, Lukundoo: And Other Stories, page 121
  2. (informal) Pertaining to a positively viewed diversity in gender and/or sexuality.
    • And if it were all fluid, if it were kind of rainbowy kinds of genders, who could oppress whom?2005, Flora Veit-Wild, Dirk Naguschewski, Body, Sexuality, and Gender, page 66
    • New Your City's Oscar Wilde Bookshop, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year (making it the oldest gay and lesbian bookstore in the world), has shied away from “rainbowy sideline items because there are so many stores around us selling those items," says owner Kim Brinster.2007, The Publishers Weekly - Volume 254, Issues 19-26, page 28

Forms of rainbowy

comparativemore rainbowy
superlativemost rainbowy

Origin of rainbowy

From rainbow + -y.

Questions about rainbowy

What does rainbowy mean?
Rainbowy means resembling a rainbow.
What part of speech is rainbowy?
Rainbowy is an adjective.

Words near rainbowy in the dictionary

  1. rainbowism
  2. rainbowlike
  3. rainbows
  4. rainbows and butterflies
  5. rainbows and unicorns
  6. rainbowy
  7. rainburn
  8. rainburst
  9. rainbursts
  10. raincape
  11. raincapes

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