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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, 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, 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, dyed, non-white, one-sided, coloured, dark-skinned

How to use colorful in a sentence?

  1. Wesley D'Amico:

    Whoever teaches the nightmare to paint, transforms the black and white dream into a colorful life.

  2. Ganga Sagar Pant:

    If you always look down and dark, you have possibility of going to depression; you can change yourself towards light and colorful lives by looking up. Look at the sky, stars, galaxies, the infinity of the Universe..., you will start shining and twinkling as you are truly one among those!

  3. Judson Jones:

    When these pieces interact with our atmosphere, they burn up to reveal the fiery, colorful streaks you can find in our night sky.

  4. 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.

  5. Roger Rosenblatt:

    They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#5908neutral
#9332pale
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#10207colorful
#18087faded
#19532sober
#38890colorless
#41014bleached
#43052drab
#47762somber
#54519waxy
#56410livid
#59538sombre
#61729pasty
#62489lurid
#70175ashen
#72491bloodless
#77536colourless
#78143pallid
#81132blanched
#94903washy
#95683dulled
#96455greyed
#137368whitened
#194502waxen
#244840etiolated

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