colorific

[ kuhl-uh-rif-ik ]

/ ˌkʌl əˈrɪf ɪk /

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adjective

producing or imparting color.

pertaining to color.

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Origin of colorific

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

Words nearby colorific

colorfield, color filter, color force, colorful, color guard, colorific, colorimeter, color index, coloring, coloring book, colorism

How to use colorific in a sentence

The Cenci is “a vulgar vocabulary of rottenness and reptilism” in an “odiferous, colorific and daisy-enamoured style.”
Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats|Barnette Miller
Without this colorific value of words, we could express little more by speech than by the symbols of algebra.
Seaward|Richard Hovey
And the hundred tints of this verdure do not form the only colorific charms of the landscape.
Two Years in the French West Indies|Lafcadio Hearn

British Dictionary definitions for colorific

colorific

/ (ˌkʌləˈrɪfɪk) /

adjective

producing, imparting, or relating to colour

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