varicolored
/'veəri,kʌləd/ Cách viết khác : (varicoloured) /'veəri,kʌləd/
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Definition
- 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
- 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
- having a variety of colors