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 colorful ['kʌlәful]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 华美的, 富有色彩的, 有趣的

  1. Her colorful character makes her very charming.
    她生动活泼的性格使她非常富有魅力。
  2. The colorful vegetation of this tropical forest amazed the professor.
    这片热带森林色彩纷呈的植被使教授惊讶。
  3. But how I should like to see with my own eyes the fascinating figure of Hamlet, or the gusty Falstaff amid colorful Elizabethan trappings!
    我多么想亲眼看到哈姆雷特的迷人形象,或者是那在艳丽多彩的伊丽莎白时代服饰中刮大风的伏尔斯塔夫!


colorful
[ adj ]
  1. having striking color

  2. <adj.all>
    colorful autumn leaves
  3. striking in variety and interest

  4. <adj.all>
    a colorful period of history
    a colorful character
    colorful language
  5. having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination

  6. <adj.all>
    colored crepe paper
    the film was in color
    amber-colored heads of grain


colorful \colorful\ adj.
1. having striking color. Opposite of {colorless}.

Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
shot}; {deep, rich}; {flaming}; {fluorescent, glowing};
{prismatic}; {psychedelic}; {red, ruddy, flushed,
empurpled}]

Syn: colourful.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of {colorless}
or {dull}. [Narrower terms: {brave, fine, gay, glorious};
{flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained}; {flashy, gaudy,
jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; {picturesque}]
[WordNet 1.5]

3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of {colorless} and
{monochrome}.

Note: [Narrower terms: {tinted}; {touched, tinged}; {amber,
brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; {amethyst}; {auburn,
reddish-brown}; {aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden};
{azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue}; {bicolor,
bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue,
bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful,
blush-colored, rosy}; {bottle-green}; {bronze, bronzy};
{brown, brownish, dark-brown}; {buff}; {canary,
canary-yellow}; {caramel, caramel brown}; {carnation};
{chartreuse}; {chestnut}; {dun}; {earth-colored,
earthlike}; {fuscous}; {green, greenish, light-green,
dark-green}; {jade, jade-green}; {khaki}; {lavender,
lilac}; {mauve}; {moss green, mosstone}; {motley,
multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
varicolored, varicoloured}; {mousy, mouse-colored};
{ocher, ochre}; {olive-brown}; {olive-drab}; {olive};
{orange, orangish}; {peacock-blue}; {pink, pinkish};
{purple, violet, purplish}; {red, blood-red, carmine,
cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
scarlet}; {red, reddish}; {rose, roseate}; {rose-red};
{rust, rusty, rust-colored}; {snuff, snuff-brown,
snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel,
brownish-orange}; {stone, stone-gray}; {straw-color,
straw-colored, straw-coloured}; {tan}; {tangerine};
{tawny}; {ultramarine}; {umber}; {vermilion,
vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; {yellow, yellowish};
{yellow-green}; {avocado}; {bay}; {beige}; {blae
bluish-black or gray-blue)}; {coral}; {creamy}; {cress
green, cresson, watercress}; {hazel}; {honey,
honey-colored}; {hued(postnominal)}; {magenta};
{maroon}; {pea-green}; {russet}; {sage, sage-green};
{sea-green}] [Also See: {chromatic}, {colored}, {dark},
{light}.]

Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
[WordNet 1.5]

  1. Would that Mr. Gould's minute descriptions of these creatures was always so colorful.
  2. "You don't need meat to be healthy," Indra Dyvmna Swami of San Francisco told a group of curious Soviets gathered around a wooden cart carrying a colorful tent and a brightly painted statue of the Krishna god Jaganatha.
  3. Unruly children scamper about colorful gardens inside high fences.
  4. But he also mixed these up with colorful printed silk velvets, satin tunics, throwing in beautifully cut checked suits and straight pants.
  5. This annual stage spectacle, coupled with a colorful art festival, is such a box-office hit that it needs no help from the National Endowment for the Arts.
  6. The colorful mastermind of a North Dakota seed-potato sale to Honduras that went sour and rocked state politics pleaded guilty Friday to bribing a former key official in the state Agriculture Department.
  7. She stops to inspect an elk track, then reels off the names of plants anchored in the dry mountain soil: sage and sego lilies, colorful cinquefoils, an ancient whitebark pine with gnarled branches scratching like claws at the sky.
  8. The data could reveal whether the majority of these ions, which trigger colorful auroras near Earth's magnetic poles, come from the sun or Earth, said Lou Frank, chairman of Galileo's magnetic field working group.
  9. Some phone with colorful stories.
  10. With parents nearby, the children watched in delight the colorful, animated graphics of Mickey Mouse and his friends and listened to the digitalized speech, fully orchestrated music and real-life sound effects.
  11. His partner in crime, a colorful Dallas stockbroker and radio personality named Billy Bob Harris, returned from prison to do a stint as a helicopter traffic reporter for a Dallas station; his performance drew a chorus of favorable phone calls.
  12. Last year's ornament was a colorful presidential seal.
  13. Mr. Snow, the central character in "Witnesses From the Grave," is a colorful Texan who started out working for the Federal Aviation Administration in the 1950s.
  14. The school bands and always, always, the rows of spangled cheerleaders on the stage with pompons, make for a colorful rally _ to be seen by the millions more who watch snippets of the events on the local evening television news.
  15. The lawsuit took a colorful path through the courts with Gregorian first winning by default when the Soviets failed to respond.
  16. The final day of Bush's trip was filled with colorful pageantry.
  17. Harold Ballard, the colorful and eccentric owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League, died Wednesday in a Toronto hospital after a long illness.
  18. Another Republican in some jeopardy is Jim Martin of North Carolina, only the second GOP governor in the state this century. He is locked in a close and colorful race with Democratic Lt.
  19. Trying to duplicate President Reagan's success at gaining coverage on the TV evening news shows, Bush went to great lengths to appear in colorful settings for the cameras.
  20. He hawked newspapers, spoke in colorful New York slang, earned coins as a singing waiter.
  21. It showcases other sides of Gauguin's art besides the colorful Tahitian and South Sea Island paintings for which he is best known.
  22. Mr. DeStefano, 34, is represented by Thomas Fitzpatrick, a colorful New York lawyer with a wry sense of humor.
  23. He told the House, in colorful words usually impolite in public meetings, it should not expect a response and should come back with a new proposal.
  24. But regulars figure a stint in Siberia is a small cost for exposure to the restaurant's mystique, grounded, like its camaraderie, in its colorful history.
  25. The purveyor of colorful, risque underwear that included satin bustiers, edible panties and peekaboo bras died Saturday night at his home, family attorney Morton Field said Sunday.
  26. "It's an important milestone," allows the soft-spoken, somewhat shy Mr. Fell, whose schoolboy manner sets him apart in an industry of colorful promoters and gruff mining engineers.
  27. They also carried colorful flags inscribed, "We are at your disposal, oh Khomeini." Schools and businesses in the Palestinian refugee camps in the southern ports of Sidon and Tyre went on strike to protest the killings.
  28. Responding to Mr. Lipton's statement, Charles Crompton, a Wilmington attorney, said: "He's used some colorful words that are not justified."
  29. There are no colorful flying hair ribbons for the women or red embroidery on dirndl skirts.
  30. Elected governor in 1978, Strauss' thick Bavarian accent coupled with stinging comments made the outspoken, corpulent Strauss West Germany's most colorful politician.
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