multicoloured

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++

Related topics: Colours

mul·ti·col·oured British English, multicolored American English /ˈmʌltiˌkʌləd $ -ərd/ adjective  CChaving many different colours 有多种不同颜色的，杂色的 a multicoloured sweatshirt 杂色的圆领长袖运动衫► see thesaurus at colour

Examples from the Corpus

multicoloured• That was who it must have been, for their faces were messily multicoloured.• This gives an all-over multicoloured effect to the knitting.• A giant multicoloured flag waved in the midday sun.• The slides were white and round with protruding domes of multicoloured plastic.• Hour after hour the great multicoloured sails swept past.• The plate was then varnished and dried, providing a hard, multicoloured screen.• Therese was huddled in nearly every garment she possessed, slacks, jumpers, her shabby grey coat and the multicoloured shawl.• Outside, the bright lights and multicoloured signs blinked and gleamed in the cold darkness.• Otherwise he had used the existing old army blanket folded beneath him and on top the blanket of multicoloured woollen squares.

mul·ti·col·oured adjectiveChineseSyllable  

having different colours Corpus many

multicoloured
mul‧ti‧col‧oured British English, multicolored American English /ˈmʌltiˌkʌləd $ -ərd/ adjectivehaving many different colours:
    a multicoloured sweatshirt
     

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

multi·col·oured (especially US multi·col·ored) BrE /ˌmʌltiˈkʌləd/ 🔊NAmE /ˌmʌltiˈkʌlərd/ 🔊 (BrE also multi·col·our) (US also multi·col·or) adjectiveconsisting of or decorated with many colours, especially bright ones 多色的；五彩斑斓的◆a multicoloured dress色彩斑斓的连衣裙