multicolored
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Having many different colors; variegated: Describes something that displays a variety of distinct colors, often in sections, patches, or a bright, vivid pattern.
Usage
- The adjective "multicolored" is used to describe an object, animal, or scene that is not of a single, uniform color. It emphasizes a noticeable and often attractive diversity of hues.
- It typically comes before the noun it modifies (e.g., a multicolored scarf) or after a linking verb (e.g., The scarf is multicolored).
Examples
- Adjective:
- She wore a beautiful multicolored skirt to the festival.
- The parrot's multicolored feathers were stunning.
- The children drew a multicolored rainbow on the sidewalk.
Advanced Usage
- "Multicolored" vs. "Colorful": While "colorful" can mean having bright colors or being interesting/vivid, "multicolored" is more specific, explicitly meaning consisting of several colors.
- Descriptive Nuance: The word often implies a deliberate or natural pattern of distinct color blocks or patches, rather than a blended gradient.
Variants and Related Words
- Multicolour (adj): The British English spelling of "multicolored".
- Multihued (adj): Having many hues; similar in meaning to "multicolored".
- Variegated (adj): Exhibiting different colors, especially as irregular patches or streaks (common in botany for leaves).
- Particolored (adj): Colored with different tints, especially in contrasting sections.
- Piebald (adj): Having irregular patches of two colors, typically black and white (used especially for animals).
- Pied (adj): Having two or more different colors in blotches (archaic or literary).
Synonyms
- Variegated
- Motley
- Polychromatic
- Rainbow
- Kaleidoscopic
Antonyms
- Monochrome
- Solid-colored
- Uniform
- Plain
Related Phrases and Idioms
- A riot of color: An idiom describing a vividly multicolored display.
- The garden in spring was a riot of color.
- Technicolor: Often used informally to describe something extremely bright and multicolored.
- The dream was in vivid Technicolor.
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