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Definition of colourful adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

colourful

adjective
 
/ˈkʌləfl/
 
/ˈkʌlərfl/
(US English colorful)
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  1. 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
    Topics Colours and Shapesb2
  2. 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
See colourful in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English

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