- full of bright colours or having a lot of different colours
- colourful shop windows
- The male birds are more colourful than the females.
- a small but colourful garden
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- interesting or exciting; full of variety, sometimes in a way that shocks people
- a colourful history/past/career
- one of the book’s most colourful characters
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