multi-color
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Having many different colors; variegated: Describes something that displays multiple distinct colors, often in sections, patches, or patterns.
- Brightly colored: Often implies the colors are vivid, striking, or showy.
Usage
- The adjective "multi-color" is used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb like "is" or "seems").
- It describes objects, designs, animals, or natural features that are not of a single, uniform color.
Examples
- Attributive use (before a noun):
- She bought a multi-color scarf for the winter.
- The artist used a multi-color palette for the mural.
- Predicative use (after a linking verb):
- The butterfly's wings are strikingly multi-color.
- The quilt seemed multi-color under the bright lights.
Advanced Usage
- "Multi-color printing": A printing process that uses several different colored inks.
- The brochure was produced using high-quality multi-color printing.
- "Multi-color display": A screen or monitor capable of showing a full spectrum of colors.
- The new smartphone features a brilliant multi-color display.
Variants and Related Words
- Multicolored (adj): The more common spelling variant with the same meaning.
- The children played with multicolored building blocks.
- Multicolor (adj): A less common, often hyphen-less variant.
- They launched a multicolor version of the sneaker.
- Particolored (adj): Formal/literary term for having different colors in different parts.
- Variegated (adj): Often used for plants or patterns with varied colors.
- Piebald (adj): Specifically describes animals, especially horses, with irregular patches of two colors, typically black and white.
- Pied (adj): Having two or more colors in patches; similar to piebald.
Synonyms
- Motley: Composed of diverse, often clashing elements or colors (can have a slightly negative or chaotic connotation).
- Polychromatic: Consisting of or using many colors (more technical/scientific).
- Rainbow: Having the colors of the rainbow; vividly multicolored.
- Kaleidoscopic: Continuously changing in pattern and color.
Antonyms
- Monochrome: Having or using only one color or shades of one color.
- Solid-colored: Of a single, uniform color.
- Plain: Not decorated or elaborate; of a single, often subdued color.
Related Phrases and Compounds
- Multi-color scheme: A planned combination of several colors in design.
- The interior designer proposed a vibrant multi-color scheme for the living room.
- Multi-color LED: A light-emitting diode that can produce different colors.
- The gadget is controlled by a remote with a multi-color LED indicator.
Adjective
- having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
- a jester dressed in motley
- the painted desert
- a particolored dress
- a piebald horse
- pied daisies