rainbowed

1. 1
   adjective

   Resembling a rainbow, lit by or showing one, or patterned in the colors of a rainbow.

   Spray from the waterfall hung over the gorge in a rainbowed mist.

   A drop of oil spread into a rainbowed film across the puddle.

   Similariridescent, prismatic, multicolored

2. 2
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of rainbow.

   Spray from the fountain rainbowed in the late afternoon sun.

   By evening the chapel floor was rainbowed with light from the stained-glass windows.

   Note

   One -ed form serves for the simple past (sunlight rainbowed the spray) and the past participle (the floor was rainbowed with light), and the verb works with or without an object. Climbers have a use of their own: someone who rainbowed a wall ignored the color-coded routes and climbed on whichever holds helped.

3. 3
   adjectiverareUS

   Made up of people of several races or ethnicities.

   Similardiverse, multiracial, multiethnic

   Note

   A rare, mostly American use that takes the rainbow's spread of colors as a picture of a mixed population. It turns up in casual writing, often after very or how; Marvin Edwards, posting in 2003, writes that here in America we're very rainbowed. The plain adjective rainbow can carry the same meaning, and many readers will pause over either, so diverse is the safer choice.

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