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adj
Possessing prominent and varied colors.
It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
[Sen. John Curtis] gives colorful socks to other lawmakers on their birthdays.
Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.
One of the most colourful people in motor racing, he writes in a colourful manner.
Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language).
Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.