colourful

col·our·ful British EnglishBrE, colorful American English /ˈkʌləfəl $ -lər-/ adjectiveadj

1 COLOUR/COLORhaving bright colours or a lot of different colours 颜色鲜艳的，色彩丰富的

a colourful display of flowers

一片五彩缤纷的鲜花

colorful costumes

色彩鲜艳的服装

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2 INTERESTINGinteresting, exciting, and full of variety 有声有色的，富于刺激性的，生动有趣的

colourful history/past/career/life

Charlie Chaplin had a long and colorful career.

查理·卓别林的演艺生涯漫长而丰富多彩。

colourful character/figure (=someone who is interesting and unusual) 有趣的人物

3. SWEARcolourful language, speech etc uses a lot of swearing 〔语言、话语等〕大量使用咒骂语的

—colourfully adverbadv

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colourful• Comfortable, colourful and cluttered, everything in the house was used and enjoyed by the Berkeleys, their family and friends.• Throughout his life, O'Connor was a colourful and controversial character.• The garden was full of colourful and fascinating flowers.• In summer the gardens would have looked colourful and pretty but somehow in the depths of the Provençal winter they appeared melancholy.• The Secrets of Santa is a magical, colourful book which all Brownies will love reading again and again.• Riva is a welcoming town with a colourful history.• This month, you look set to be especially colourful if not spectacularly successful.• Coleman's colourful life is recorded in his autobiography Reflections of a Racing Driver.• Except in the colourful person of the legendary John Winchcombe, the Berkshire woollen industry had little in the way of glamour.• The marina is a colourful sight and has shops and restaurants.• That's a really colourful tie you're wearing.• Textured seats and colourful woven floor matting add to the hot tropical ambiance.

colourful character/figure• Mozart's librettist for Figaro was himself a controversial and colourful character.• The most colourful character amongst these was William Riley, who had a varied and successful operational career.• The result has all the colourful character of other hand dragged kitchens, but with a very real and visible bonus.• These fish have provided me with a tank full of hardy, clever, colourful characters that are easy to care.

col·our·ful adjectiveadj

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