Dictionary

varicolored en · ADJ

Etymology

From vari- + color + -ed.

Meanings

1. Having a variety of colors.
   • Watching Jesse Jackson in tears in Grant Park, pressed up against the varicolored American public, it seemed like he, at least, had received the answer he needed: only a many-voiced man could have spoken to that many people. 2009, Zadie Smith, “Speaking in Tongues”, in Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, New York: Penguin:
   • The Fisherman looked into the water and was much astonished to see therein vari-coloured fishes, white and red, blue and yellow; however he cast his net and, hauling it in, saw that he had netted four fishes, one of each colour. 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 62:
   • The varicolored cloud of dust that the sun had stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees. 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 1, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 15:
   • […] the habit of the greater part of them is only a wreath of Callico tyed about their heads; their mid-parts are circled with a Zone of vari-colored plad, and have Sandalls upon their feet, elsewhere being naked […] 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique, Book 2, p, 128:
   • Near-synonyms: motley, multicolor, multicoloured, particoloured, particolour; see also Thesaurus:multicolored

Forms

Relateds

variegated · variegate

Synonyms

tissued · rainbow · polychromatic · multihued · multicolored (US) / multicoloured · obsolete) / discoloured · polychromed · multichromatic · particolour · multicolorous · many-coloured · variegated · multicolor · motley · colorific · aurora-colored (US) / aurora-coloured · multicolor (US) / multicolour · variegated · multicoloured · polychromate · kaleidoscopic · prismatic · polyhued · colorful (US) / colourful · motley · particolored (US) / particoloured · discolored [⇒ thesaurus] (US · particoloured · rainbow-colored (US) / rainbow-coloured

Translations (16)

es policromo (having a variety of colours) · fi kirjava (having a variety of colours) · ka ნაირფერი (having a variety of colours) · pt policromo (having a variety of colours) · ka ფერად-ფერადი (having a variety of colours) · eo mikskolora (having a variety of colours) · ka მრავალფერი (having a variety of colours) · ro pestriț (having a variety of colours) · cs vícebarevný (having a variety of colours) · fi monivärinen (having a variety of colours) · eo bunta (having a variety of colours) · bg разноцве́тен (having a variety of colours) · cs pestrobarevný (having a variety of colours) · ru разноцве́тный (having a variety of colours) · fi värikäs (having a variety of colours) · it policromo (having a variety of colours)