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 →

2) Colourful means interesting, lively and exciting, like a colourful character or story. tree →

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 →
• We painted a colourful rainbow. tree →
• The market was busy and colourful. tree →
• Coral reefs are full of colourful fish. tree →
• Her room is very colourful. tree →
• Grandpa is a colourful character who tells funny stories. tree →
• Some colourful animals use bright colours to warn they are poisonous. tree →

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.
• Koi are colourful carp bred in Japan, and some koi have been reported to live for over a hundred years.
• When you read "the coach used colourful language", nobody painted anything: the coach swore.
• The word "colourful" makes the swearing sound almost cheerful.
• "Colourful language" means swearing; it is a British polite phrase.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «colourful» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.