# colourful

Pronunciation: UK say "KUL-uh-ful" /ˈkʌl.ə.fl̩/; US say "KUL-er-ful" /ˈkʌl.ɚ.fl̩/

## Adjective

1. Marked by a variety of bold, eye-catching colours.
   - Simple: Having lots of different bright colours.
   - _A row of colourful beach huts lines the seafront._
   - _The children painted a colourful mural on the playground wall._
2. Interesting and full of energy, with many different sides and a strongly individual character.
   - Simple: Lively and interesting in an unusual way.
   - _The landlord is a colourful character who has a story about every regular._
   - _His memoir describes a colourful career spent between racing circuits and film sets._
3. A polite way to describe language full of swearing, obscenity or insult, usually in the phrase colourful language.
   - Simple: A polite way of saying that someone's words are rude or full of swearing.
   - _The minister was caught on a microphone using some colourful language about his colleagues._
   - _Dad's description of the other drivers on the M25 was colourful, to say the least._

## Origin

Formed from colour + -ful.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/colourful (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).