Synonyms of the word

colorful

• adj. Possessing prominent and varied colors.
• adj. Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.
• adj. (euphemistic) Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language).

ablaze

• adj. Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire.
• adj. Radiant with bright light and color.
• adj. In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
• adv. On fire; in a blaze, gleaming.
• adv. Lit up brightly and with color.
• adv. In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.

bay

• n. (obsolete) A berry.
• n. Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
• n. The leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or…
• n. (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
• n. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
• n. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.
• n. A bank or dam to keep back water.
• n. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
• n. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
• n. The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
• n. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
• n. (rail transport) A bay platform.
• n. A bay window.
• n. The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
• n. (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
• n. (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become…
• v. (intransitive) To howl.
• v. (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
• v. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
• adj. Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).
• n. A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
• n. A horse of this color.

bichrome

• adj. Having two colours.

bicolor

• adj. Alternative form of bicolour.

bicolored

• adj. Alternative form of bicoloured.

bicolour

• adj. Having two colours.
• n. A flower, cat etc., that has two colours.

bicoloured

• adj. Of two colours.

black

• adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
• adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
• adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the…
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”).
• adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
• adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
• adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
• adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
• adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
• adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black"…
• adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a…
• adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
• adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light…
• n. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
• n. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
• n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
• n. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
• n. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
• n. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
• n. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
• n. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
• n. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
• n. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
• v. To make black, to blacken.
• v. To apply blacking to something.
• v. (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

blackened

• adj. Darkened to the degree that something appears almost black in color.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of blacken.

brave

• adj. Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
• adj. (obsolete) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
• adj. Making a fine show or display.
• n. (dated, possibly offensive) A Native American warrior.
• n. (obsolete) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
• n. (obsolete) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
• v. (transitive) To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.

bright

• adj. Visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark.
• adj. Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
• adj. Vivid, colourful, brilliant.
• adj. Happy, in good.
• adj. Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; cheerful.
• adj. Illustrious; glorious.
• adj. Clear; transparent.
• adj. (archaic) Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain.
• n. An artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle…
• n. (obsolete) splendour; brightness.
• n. (neologism) A person with a naturalistic worldview with no supernatural or mystical elements.
• n. (US, in the plural) The high-beam intensity of motor vehicle headlamps.

brilliant

• adj. Shining brightly.
• adj. (of a colour) Both bright and saturated.
• adj. (of a voice or sound) having a sharp, clear tone.
• adj. Of surpassing excellence.
• adj. Magnificent or wonderful.
• adj. Highly intelligent.
• n. A finely cut gemstone, especially a diamond, cut in a particular form with numerous facets so as to maximize…
• n. (uncountable, printing, dated) The size of type between excelsior and diamond, standardized as 4-point.
• n. Most hummingbird species of the genus Heliodoxa.
• n. A kind of cotton goods, figured on the weaving.

calico

• n. A kind of rough cloth, often printed with a bright pattern.
• n. A cat with fur of the colors black, white and orange.
• adj. Having a pattern of red and contrasting areas, resembling the color of calico cloth.

changeable

• adj. Capable of being changed.
• adj. Subject to sudden or frequent changes.

chatoyant

• adj. (jewelry) Having a certain optical reflectance effect, which can be likened to the sheen of a spool of…
• n. (mineralogy) A hard stone, such as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior,…

chromatic

• adj. Relating to or characterised by hue.
• adj. Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
• adj. (music) Related to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is…

colored

• adj. Having a color.
• adj. Having a particular color or kind of color.
• adj. Having prominent colors; colorful.
• adj. Influenced pervasively but subtly.
• adj. (US, now dated and potentially offensive) Of skin color other than the white; in particular: black.
• adj. (South Africa, potentially offensive) Of neither black nor white skin color.
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
• n. (US, now dated and offensive) A colored person.
• n. (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of color.

coloured

• adj. British spelling standard spelling of colored.
• n. British spelling standard spelling of colored.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of colour.

colourful

• adj. British spelling standard spelling of colorful.

crimson

• n. A deep, slightly bluish red.
• adj. Having a deep red colour.
• adj. Having loose morals.
• v. to blush.
• v. To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.

deep

• adj. (heading, of a physical distance) Extending far away from a point of reference, especially downwards.
• adj. (heading, intellectual, social) Complex, involved.
• adj. (sound, voice) Low in pitch.
• adj. (of a color) Dark and highly saturated.
• adj. (sleep) Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken).
• adj. Immersed, submerged (in).
• adj. Muddy; boggy; sandy; said of roads.
• adv. Deeply.
• n. (literary, with "the") The deep part of a lake, sea, etc.
• n. (rare) A deep shade of colour.
• n. (US, rare) The profound part of a problem.
• n. (with "the") The sea, the ocean.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position near the boundary.

dichromatic

• adj. having two colors.
• adj. (pathology) having a form of colorblindness in which only two of the three primary colors can be distinguished.
• adj. (zoology) having two independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.
• adj. (biology) occurring or existing in two different ornamentations or colors, typically as a form of sexual…
• adj. (optics) having two hues, either of which may be visible depending on both the concentration of the absorbing…
• adj. (optics) exhibiting dichroism; dichroic.

flamboyant

• adj. Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.
• adj. (architecture) Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
• n. The royal poinciana (Delonix regia), a showy tropical tree.

flaming

• adj. On fire with visible flames.
• adj. (colloquial) Extremely obvious; visibly evident. Typically of a homosexual male.
• adj. (Britain, colloquial) Damned, bloody.
• v. present participle of flame.
• n. Sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame.
• n. (Internet slang) Vitriolic criticism.

flashy

• adj. Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing.
• adj. (dated, poetic) Flashing; producing flashes.

flesh-colored

• adj. Of the color of flesh.

flesh-coloured

• adj. British standard form of flesh-colored.

fluorescent

• adj. Of or relating to fluorescence.
• adj. Exhibiting or produced by fluorescence.
• adj. Emitting visible light as a result of the excitation of phosphors by ultraviolet photons produced by the…
• adj. Glowing as if with fluorescence; vivid.
• n. A fluorescent light.

flushed

• adj. Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of flush.

gaudy

• adj. very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.
• adj. (obsolete) gay; merry; festive.
• n. One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
• n. A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the…

gay

• adj. (dated) Happy, joyful, and lively.
• adj. (dated) Festive, bright, or colourful.
• adj. (obsolete) Sexually promiscuous (of either gender).
• adj. Homosexual.
• adj. A pejorative.
• adj. (of a dog's tail) Upright or curved over the back.
• n. (chiefly in plural or attributive) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian.
• n. (obsolete) An ornament.
• v. (transitive, dated, uncommon) To make happy or cheerful.
• v. (transitive, uncommon) To cause (an issue, especially AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.
• n. The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand.

ginger

• n. The pungent aromatic rhizome of a tropical Asian herb, Zingiber officinale, used as a spice and as a stimulant…
• n. The plant that produces this rhizome.
• n. Other species belonging to the same family, Zingiberaceae, especially those of the genus Zingiber.
• n. A reddish-brown color.
• n. (colloquial, often derogatory, countable) A person with reddish-brown hair; a redhead.
• n. (colloquial, uncountable) Vitality, vigour, liveliness (of character).
• adj. (of hair) Of a reddish-brown colour.
• v. To add ginger to.
• v. To enliven, to spice (up).
• v. To apply ginger to the anus of a horse to encourage it to carry its tail high and move in a lively fashion.
• v. (Nigeria) To inspire, give (someone) a bit of a boost.
• adj. sensitive, delicate.
• v. To move gingerly, very careful and cautious.
• n. (Britain, Cockney rhyming slang) A homosexual.
• adj. (Britain, Cockney rhyming slang) Homosexual.

gingery

• adj. somewhat ginger in colour.
• adj. having a flavour of the spice ginger.

honey-colored

• adj. having the color of honey; golden.

indigo

• n. A purplish-blue colour.
• n. An indigo-colored dye obtained from certain plants (the indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic…
• n. An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo),…
• adj. having a deep blue colour.

iridescent

• adj. (not comparable) Producing a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colors; prismatic.
• adj. Brilliant, lustrous, or colorful.

jazzy

• adj. In the style of jazz.
• adj. Flashy or showy.

liver

• n. (anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces…
• n. (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
• n. A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
• adj. Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
• n. Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
• adj. comparative form of live: more live.

loud

• adj. (of a sound) Of great intensity.
• adj. (of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy.
• adj. (of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash.
• adj. (of clothing, decorations, etc.) Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns;…
• adj. (of marijuana, slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating…
• adv. Loudly.
• n. (slang) High-quality marijuana.

many-sided

• adj. Having many sides; polygonal.
• adj. Having many aspects.

monochromatic

• adj. Having only one color, represented by differing hues and tints. For example shades in a black and white…
• adj. Perceptive of only one color; unable to distinguish colors; total color blindness.
• adj. (figuratively) Plain, dull, lifeless.

monochrome

• n. A black and white image, especially such a photograph.
• n. (dated) A painting executed in shades of a single colour.
• n. A ceramic glaze of a single colour; an object so glazed.
• adj. having only one colour.
• adj. (photography) representing colours with shades of gray.

monochromic

• adj. Of a single colour; monochromatic.

motley

• adj. Comprising greatly varied elements, to the point of incongruity; heterogeneous.
• adj. Having many colours; variegated.
• n. An incongruous mixture.
• n. A jester's multicoloured clothes.
• n. (by extension) A jester; a fool.

multi-colored

• adj. Alternative form of multicolored.

multi-coloured

• adj. Alternative form of multicoloured: British spelling standard spelling of multicolored.

multicolor

• adj. Having, resembling, or pertaining to many colors.

multicolored

• adj. Having multiple colors.

multicolour

• adj. Britain and Canada standard spelling of multicolor.

multicoloured

• adj. Alternative spelling of multicolored.

noisy

• adj. Making a noise, especially a loud unpleasant sound.
• adj. Full of noise.
• adj. Unpleasant-looking and causing unwanted attention.

painted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of paint.
• adj. Coated with paint.
• adj. Depicted in paint.
• adj. Colorful, as if painted.
• adj. Wearing makeup.

particolored

• adj. US standard spelling of particoloured.

particoloured

• adj. Made up of sections having different, often bright, colours.

picturesque

• adj. Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting.

piebald

• adj. (also used figuratively) Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white.
• adj. (figuratively) Of mixed character, heterogeneous.
• n. An animal with piebald coloration.

pied

• v. simple past tense and past participle of pi.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of pie.
• adj. Decorated or colored in blotches.

polychromatic

• adj. Showing a variety, or a change, of colours; having many colours; multicoloured.
• adj. (physics, of electromagnetic radiation) Composed of more than one wavelength.

polychrome

• adj. Using multiple colours.
• adj. Executed in the manner of polychromy.
• n. (chemistry) esculin (so called in allusion to its fluorescent solutions).

polychromic

• adj. Polychromatic.
• adj. (chemistry) Pertaining to, or designating, any one of several acids (known only in their salts) which…

prismatic

• adj. Of or pertaining to a prism; having the form of a prism; containing one or more prisms.
• adj. Separated or distributed by, or as if by, a transparent prism; formed by a prism; varied or brilliant…

psychedelic

• adj. Of, containing, generating, or reminiscent of drug-induced hallucinations, distortions of perception,…
• adj. (of graphics, etc.) Having bright colours, abstract shapes, etc. reminiscent of drug-induced hallucinations…
• n. Any psychoactive substance (such as LSD or psilocybin) which, when consumed, causes perceptual changes…
• interj. (hippie slang) awesome, cool, groovy.

rainbow-like

• adj. Alternative form of rainbowlike.

red

• adj. Having red as its color.
• adj. (of hair) Having an orange-brown colour; ginger.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”).
• adj. (often capitalized) Left-wing, especially socialist or communist.
• adj. (US, modern) Supportive of or dominated by the political party represented by the color red, especially…
• adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations.
• adj. (US, modern) Of, pertaining to, or run by (a member of) the political party represented by the color red,…
• adj. (Britain) Supportive of the Labour Party.
• adj. (politics) Related to the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
• adj. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum…
• adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of red.
• n. (countable and uncountable) Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible…
• n. (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik,…
• n. (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
• n. (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
• n. (derogatory, offensive) An Amerind.
• n. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
• n. (informal) A red light (a traffic signal).
• n. (Ireland, Britain, beverages, informal) red lemonade.
• n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
• n. (US, colloquial, uncountable) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red").
• v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of rede.
• v. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of redd.
• v. (transitive, Pennsylvania) Alternative spelling of redd.

red-faced

• adj. Used other than as an idiom. Having a face that is the color red.
• adj. With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.

reddened

• adj. Made red.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of redden.

rich

• adj. Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
• adj. Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.
• adj. Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
• adj. Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.
• adj. Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious;…
• adj. Not faint or delicate; vivid.
• adj. (informal, dated) Very amusing.
• adj. (informal) Ridiculous, absurd.
• adj. Used to form adjectives when combined with common nouns for things considered desirable in the context…
• adj. (computing) Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
• adj. Of a fuel-air mixture, having less air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen-…
• v. (obsolete) To enrich.

roan

• adj. Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
• adj. Made of the leather called roan.
• n. An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
• n. The color of such an animal.
• n. A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored…

rose-colored

• adj. (American) Alternative spelling of rose-coloured.

shot

• adj. (colloquial) Worn out or broken.
• adj. (of material, especially silk) Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an…
• adj. Tired, weary.
• adj. Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
• n. The result of launching a projectile or bullet.
• n. (sports) The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal.
• n. (athletics) The heavy iron ball used for the shot put.
• n. (uncountable) Small metal balls used as ammunition.
• n. (uncountable, military) Metal balls (or similar) used as ammunition; not necessarily small.
• n. (referring to one's skill at firing a gun) Someone who shoots (a gun) regularly.
• n. An opportunity or attempt.
• n. A remark or comment, especially one which is critical or insulting.
• n. (slang, sports, US) A punch or other physical blow.
• n. A measure of alcohol, usually spirits, as taken either from a shot-glass or directly from the bottle,…
• n. A single serving of espresso.
• n. (photography, film) A single unbroken sequence of photographic film exposures, or the digital equivalent;…
• n. A vaccination or injection.
• n. (US, Canada, baseball, informal) A home run that scores one, two, or three runs (a four run home run is…
• n. (US federal prison system) Written documentation of a behavior infraction.
• n. (fisheries) A cast of one or more nets.
• n. (fisheries) A place or spot for setting nets.
• n. (fisheries) A single draft or catch of fish made.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of shoot.
• v. (transitive) To load (a gun) with shot.
• n. A charge to be paid, a scot or shout.
• interj. (colloquial, South Africa) Thank you.

showy

• adj. (sometimes derogatory) calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye.

shrill

• adj. High-pitched and piercing.
• adj. Sharp or keen to the senses.
• adj. Having a shrill voice.
• v. To make a shrill noise.
• n. A shrill sound.

sporty

• adj. Favourable to sports.
• adj. Flashy in appearance.

straw-colored

• adj. Pale yellow, the color of straw.

trichromatic

• adj. Involving three colours.
• adj. Having perception in three primary colours.

trichrome

• adj. trichromatic.
• n. (cytology) A combined stain that stains three different tissuess three different colours.

tricolor

• adj. Having three colors.
• n. Alternative spelling of tricolour.

unrestrained

• adj. immoderate; not restrained or held in check.
• adj. spontaneous, natural and informal; unconstrained.
• adj. Not subject to physical restraint.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of unrestrain.

varicolored

• adj. Having a variety of colors; variegated or motley.

varicoloured

• adj. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of varicolored.

vibrant

• adj. Pulsing with energy or activity.
• adj. Lively and vigorous.
• adj. Vibrating, resonant or resounding.
• adj. (of a colour) Bright.

vivid

• n. (New Zealand) A felt-tipped permanent marker, genericised from the brand.
• adj. (of perception) Clear, detailed or powerful.
• adj. (of an image) Bright, intense or colourful.
• adj. Full of life, strikingly alive.