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# colourful

«colourful» in Mova's school dictionary: **having many bright colours** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (colourful, more colourful, most colourful; US colorful)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Colourful means having many bright colours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colourful/#m1)

2) Colourful means interesting, lively and exciting, like a colourful character or story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colourful/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In art lessons pupils make colourful pictures; in nature, parrots, flowers and coral reefs are colourful. In writing, a colourful description is vivid. Phrases: bright and colourful, a colourful character.

### examples

- The parrot has colourful feathers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colourful/#x1)
- We painted a colourful rainbow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colourful/#x2)
- The market was busy and colourful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colourful/#x3)
- Coral reefs are full of colourful fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colourful/#x4)
- Her room is very colourful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colourful/#x5)
- Grandpa is a colourful character who tells funny stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colourful/#x6)
- Some colourful animals use bright colours to warn they are poisonous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colourful/#x7)

### note

Spelling: colourful in UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ, Canada (usually); colorful in the USA. Ending: -ful with one l. Opposite: colourless, dull. In nature, bright colours can be a warning sign, so don't touch colourful frogs or caterpillars.

### In the corpora

- [Vapes are made colourful and sweet-tasting, and selling them to under-18s is against the law.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/10/)
- [Koi are colourful carp bred in Japan, and some koi have been reported to live for over a hundred years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth/10/)
- [When you read "the coach used colourful language", nobody painted anything: the coach swore.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/2/)
- [The word "colourful" makes the swearing sound almost cheerful.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/3/)
- ["Colourful language" means swearing; it is a British polite phrase.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «colourful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colourful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.