colorific

[ kuhl-uh-rif-ik ]

adjective

1. producing or imparting color.
2. pertaining to color.

colorific

/ ˌkʌləˈrɪfɪk /

adjective

1. producing, imparting, or relating to colour

Word History and Origins

Origin of colorific¹

First recorded in 1670–80; color + -i- + -fic

Example Sentences

The Cenci is “a vulgar vocabulary of rottenness and reptilism” in an “odiferous, colorific and daisy-enamoured style.”

From Project Gutenberg

Without this colorific value of words, we could express little more by speech than by the symbols of algebra.

From Project Gutenberg

And the hundred tints of this verdure do not form the only colorific charms of the landscape.

From Project Gutenberg