colorful
adjective
abounding in color.
colorfully
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a word derived from
colorful.
Example Sentences
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In a speech in February, Fed governor Christopher Waller put it more colorfully: “You don’t want banks every night … digging around the couch cushions looking for money. That is massively inefficient, stupid.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 18, 2026
After a 16-hour bus ride, Prapakaran removed his shoes, entered through a side door of the colorfully painted building and proceeded to the marble-floored inner sanctum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2025
Metzger, who also grew up in a multigenerational home, layered the project with a series of colorfully landscaped outdoor spaces dotted with varied buildings, their shifting materials and forms reflecting Altadena’s famously eclectic palette.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025
For the average person, any explanation about philosophers and physicists warring over the nature of consciousness — no matter how colorfully described — would probably sound like an embarrassingly low-stakes Ivory Tower slap fight.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2024
Some of the kids dressed colorfully, and some quite plainly.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
