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What is another word for colourful?

See also: colorful (US)

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With bright or richly varied colours

Vivid or distinctive in character

Attractively striking, especially due to being unique or strange

Suggestive of glamour or excitement

Showing a lack of good taste, decency, or refinement

Pleasantly stimulating or exciting to the mind

Having an exciting, exotic or fascinating quality

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Adjective

With bright or richly varied colours

multicolored^US

multicoloured^UK

many-coloured^US

bright-coloured

brightly colored^US

brightly coloured^UK

like an explosion in a paint factory

looking like an explosion in a paint factory

many-colored^UK

rainbow-colored

rainbow-coloured

highly-coloured

invigorating^US

richly colored^UK

envigorating^UK

richly coloured^US

exhibitionistic

brilliantly colored^US

brilliantly coloured^UK

cheap and nasty

twopenny-halfpenny

multi-colored^US

many-splendoured

multi-coloured^UK

out of the ordinary

putting on the ritz

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“A parent, who is a costumer for a theatre company, provided many of the bright, colourful costumes.”

Adjective

Vivid or distinctive in character

highly coloured

well delineated

leaving nothing to the imagination

representational

photo-realistic

three-dimensional

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“His lyrics are always childlike and unpretentious, evoking ridiculous pictures and colourful characters.”

Adjective

Attractively striking, especially due to being unique or strange

very interesting

“Doris Blessing is an 80-year-old spinster and a rather colourful character.”

Adjective

Suggestive of glamour or excitement

“Why would they take a risk with a hip writer living a colourful lifestyle when they could just go with some poor pretentious indebted schlub who thinks he just wrote the next Great American Novel.”

Adjective

Showing a lack of good taste, decency, or refinement

dishonourable^UK

dishonorable^US

near the knuckle

close to the bone

low-down-and-dirty

lowdown and dirty

unsophisticated

beyond the pale

rough-and-tumble

sexually explicit

sexually suggestive

low-down and dirty

hot under the collar

hot and bothered

in the fast lane

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Adjective

Pleasantly stimulating or exciting to the mind

full of get-up-and-go

full of the joys of spring

bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

bright and breezy

full of vim and vigour

alive and kicking

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Adjective

Having an exciting, exotic or fascinating quality

attention-grabbing

envigorating^UK

invigorating^US

out of the ordinary

thought-provoking

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