Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly: Describes something that is marked with multiple distinct colors, often in a vivid or striking pattern.
   • Having a variety of colors: Describes something that is multicolored or composed of several different colors.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The varicolored leaves of autumn covered the forest floor.
  • She wore a beautiful, varicolored scarf that she had knitted herself.
  • The artist used a varicolored palette to create a vibrant and lively painting.

Advanced Usage

• "Varicolored" is often used in more formal, literary, or descriptive contexts to add a sense of vividness or specific detail about color variety. It is less common in everyday speech than synonyms like "multicolored."
  • The varicolored plumage of the tropical bird made it easy to spot among the green foliage.

Variants and Related Words

• Varicoloured (adj): The British English spelling of "varicolored."
• Multicolored (adj): Having many colors. (A more common synonym).
• Particolored (adj): Having different colors in different parts; patterned with contrasting colors.
• Piebald (adj): (Especially of a horse) having irregular patches of two colors, typically black and white.
• Pied (adj): Having two or more different colors, typically in irregular patches.
• Motley (adj): Incongruously varied in appearance or character; varied in color.

Synonyms

• Multicolored
• Polychromatic
• Rainbow
• Kaleidoscopic
• Prismatic
• Colorful

Antonyms

• Monochrome
• Solid-colored
• Uniform
• Achromatic

Related Phrases and Idioms

• A riot of color: An idiom describing a very bright and varied mixture of colors, similar in meaning to "varicolored."
  • The garden in spring was a riot of color.

Adjective

1. 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
2. having a variety of colors