varicolored
varicolored adjective: having a variety of colors.
Adjective
varicolored
- Having a variety of colors.
- Near-synonyms: motley, multicolor, multicoloured, particoloured, particolour; see also Thesaurus:multicolored
- […] the habit of the greater part of them is only a wreath of Callico tyed about their heads; their mid-parts are circled with a Zone of vari-colored plad, and have Sandalls upon their feet, elsewhere being naked […]1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique, Book 2, p, 128
- Synonyms:
- variegated, motley, multicolor, multicoloured, particoloured, particolour, aurora-colored (US) / aurora-coloured, colorful (US) / colourful, colorific, discolored [⇒ thesaurus] (US
Synonyms of varicolored
- variegated
- motley
- multicolor
- multicoloured
- particoloured
- particolour
- aurora-colored (US) / aurora-coloured
- colorful (US) / colourful
- colorific
- kaleidoscopic
17 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- many-coloured
- multichromatic
- multicolor (US) / multicolour
- multicolored (US) / multicoloured
- multicolorous
- multihued
- particolored (US) / particoloured
- polychromate
- polychromatic
- polychromed
- prismatic
- rainbow
- rainbow-colored (US) / rainbow-coloured
- tissued
- discolored [⇒ thesaurus] (US
- obsolete) / discoloured
- polyhued
Forms of varicolored
| alternative form | varicoloured |
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Origin of varicolored
From vari- + color + -ed.
Questions about varicolored
- What does varicolored mean?
- Varicolored means having a variety of colors.
- What part of speech is varicolored?
- Varicolored is an adjective.
Words near varicolored in the dictionary
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