colourful
Use Colourful in a sentenceWorld English Dictionary
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| —adj | |
| 1. | having intense colour or richly varied colours |
| 2. | vivid, rich, or distinctive in character |
| 'colourfully | |
| —adv | |
| 'colourfulness | |
| —n | |
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Colourful
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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This use of colourful insults proved successful and was a mainstay in future books.
His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation.
Estate maps were colourful and often intended for display as well as estate management.
Description the rainbow lorikeet is very colourful as its name suggests.
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