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colourful

Adjective

Meaning

having much or varied color

striking in variety and interest

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They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind. Owen Hart

The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old. Ted Hughes

The meaning of the word "gay" has changed. It used to mean all colourful and happy and homosexual, but now it's a word children use to describe something that's a little bit meh. "You're eating Weetabix? Oh, that's so gay." Dylan Moran

It is as a composer that his name will live longest. He was the last of the colourful Russian masters of the late 19th cent[ury], with their characteristic gift for long and broad melodies imbued with a resigned melancholy which is never long absent. Sergei Rachmaninoff

Rabbit feels as if the human race is a vast colourful jostling bristling parade in which he is limping and falling behind. John Updike

There are many colourful flowers on the path of life, but the prettiest have the sharpest thorns. African Proverb

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