Antonyms for Colorful
ˈkʌl ər fəlcol·or·ful

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1. colorful, colourfuladjective

   having striking color

   "colorful autumn leaves"

   Antonyms:
   washed-out, etiolate, whitened, pastelike, dulled, blanched, pallid, somber, waxlike, colourless, pale, waxen, waxy, sober, faded, etiolated, sombre, colorless, livid, bloodless, lurid, ashen, prefaded, pasty, washy, wan, drab, bleached, greyed, white, neutral

   Synonyms:
   coloured, colorful, colourful

2. colorful, colourfuladjective

   striking in variety and interest

   "a colorful period of history"; "a colorful character"; "colorful language"

   Antonyms:
   neutral, colorless, waxlike, sober, greyed, ashen, somber, waxy, etiolated, bleached, drab, white, pallid, washed-out, waxen, pale, lurid, washy, bloodless, whitened, colourless, dulled, pasty, wan, blanched, pastelike, faded, livid, etiolate, sombre, prefaded

   Synonyms:
   coloured, colorful, colourful

3. colored, coloured, colorfuladjective

   having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination

   "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"

   Antonyms:
   pallid, blanched, white, wan, waxy, ashen, lurid, colourless, pasty, prefaded, somber, bleached, waxen, etiolate, pastelike, sombre, pale, whitened, colorless, livid, washy, drab, faded, greyed, sober, etiolated, dulled, waxlike, neutral, bloodless, washed-out

   Synonyms:
   slanted, dark, biased, colourful, bleached, colorful, dyed, non-white, one-sided, coloured, dark-skinned

How to use Colorful in a sentence?

1. Andrei Kormukhin:

   Many say that this is the revival of the Russian Orthodox Church, we use a more colorful expression.

2. William Lacy Clay:

   The painting portrays a colorful landscape of symbolic characters representing social injustice, the tragic events in Ferguson and the lingering elements of inequality in modern American society.

3. Gary Condit:

   Throughout the investigation, we met a lot of colorful characters, and some things that were said were surprising. The majority were just people who wanted to get their 15 minutes and there was n’t much we [ could have done ] with that information.

4. Denis Klimentov:

   The organizing committee for the commencement last year thought that he was a colorful and interesting character, it was partially supported by the fact that The Washington Post, the newspaper, back in the spring of 2016, cited Carter as one of Mr. Trump's foreign policy advisors.

5. Emmanuel Macron:

   He may be colorful sometimes but we all are at times, he's a character, but he's a leader with a real strategic vision. Those who didn't take him seriously were wrong.

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