colourful

Word family  noun colour/color colouring/coloring coloration colourant/colorant colourist/colorist adjective coloured/colored discoloured/discolored colourful/colorful ≠ colourless/colorless multicoloured colour/color verb colour/color adverb colourfully/colorfully ≠ colourlessly/colorlessly

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++col·our·ful British English, colorful American English /ˈkʌləfəl $ -lər-/ ●●○ adjective  1  COLOUR/COLORhaving bright colours or a lot of different colours 颜色鲜艳的，色彩丰富的 a colourful display of flowers 一片五彩缤纷的鲜花 colorful costumes 色彩鲜艳的服装► see thesaurus at colour2  INTERESTINGinteresting, exciting, and full of variety 有声有色的，富于刺激性的，生动有趣的colourful history/past/career/life Charlie Chaplin had a long and colorful career. 查理·卓别林的演艺生涯漫长而丰富多彩。colourful character/figure (=someone who is interesting and unusual) 有趣的人物3. SWEARcolourful language, speech etc uses a lot of swearing 〔语言、话语等〕大量使用咒骂语的 —colourfully adverb

Examples from the Corpus

colourful• Comfortable, colourful and cluttered, everything in the house was used and enjoyed by the Berkeleys, their family and friends.• Throughout his life, O'Connor was a colourful and controversial character.• The garden was full of colourful and fascinating flowers.• In summer the gardens would have looked colourful and pretty but somehow in the depths of the Provençal winter they appeared melancholy.• The Secrets of Santa is a magical, colourful book which all Brownies will love reading again and again.• Riva is a welcoming town with a colourful history.• This month, you look set to be especially colourful if not spectacularly successful.• Coleman's colourful life is recorded in his autobiography Reflections of a Racing Driver.• Except in the colourful person of the legendary John Winchcombe, the Berkshire woollen industry had little in the way of glamour.• The marina is a colourful sight and has shops and restaurants.• That's a really colourful tie you're wearing.• Textured seats and colourful woven floor matting add to the hot tropical ambiance.colourful character/figure• Mozart's librettist for Figaro was himself a controversial and colourful character.• The most colourful character amongst these was William Riley, who had a varied and successful operational career.• The result has all the colourful character of other hand dragged kitchens, but with a very real and visible bonus.• These fish have provided me with a tank full of hardy, clever, colourful characters that are easy to care.

col·our·ful adjectiveChineseSyllable  

or bright of a Corpus different colours lot having

colourful
col‧our‧ful British English, colorful American English /ˈkʌləfəl $ -lər-/ adjective1. having bright colours or a lot of different colours:
    a colourful display of flowers
    colorful costumes
2. interesting, exciting, and full of variety
    colourful history/past/career/life
    Charlie Chaplin had a long and colorful career.
    colourful character/figure (=someone who is interesting and unusual)
3. colourful language, speech etc uses a lot of swearing
—colourfully adverb
     

THESAURUS

■ bright colours
   ▪ bright used about a colour that is strong and easy to see: The front door was painted bright red.
   ▪ brilliant/vivid used about a colour that is very bright: I looked out at the brilliant blue sky. | vivid red flowers
   ▪ colourful British English, colorful American English used about things that have many different bright colours: There were window boxes full of colourful flowers.
   ▪ multicoloured British English, multicolored American English used about things that have a pattern of many different bright colours: A multicoloured flag waved in the midday sun.
   ▪ gaudy/garish too brightly coloured, in a way that is unattractive: The wallpaper was much too gaudy for me. | a garish orange tie

col·our·ful (especially US col·or·ful) BrE /ˈkʌləfl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkʌlərfl/ 🔊 adjectivefull of bright colours or having a lot of different colours 颜色鲜艳的；五彩缤纷的◆colourful shop windows五彩缤纷的商店橱窗◆The male birds are more colourful than the females. 这种鸟雄性比雌性更加色彩艳丽。🔊🔊interesting or exciting; full of variety, sometimes in a way that is slightly shocking 有趣的；令人激动的；丰富多彩的（有时达到了有些令人震惊的程度）◆a colourful history/past/career 丰富多彩的历史／过去／经历◆one of the book's most colourful characters这部书中最有趣的人物之一▸ col·our·ful·ly (especially US col·or·ful·ly) BrE /ˈkʌləfəli/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkʌlərfəli/ 🔊 adverb◆The street was colourfully decorated with flags and bunting.街道上装饰着五彩缤纷的旗子和彩带。◆The tragic tale is told well and colourfully.这个悲惨的故事讲得生动而扣人心弦。