colorful \colorful\ adj.
   1. having striking color. Opposite of {colorless}.

   Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,  shot}; {deep, rich}; {flaming}; {fluorescent, glowing};
         {prismatic}; {psychedelic}; {red, ruddy, flushed,  empurpled}]

   Syn: colourful.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of {colorless}
      or {dull}. [Narrower terms: {brave, fine, gay, glorious};
      {flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained}; {flashy, gaudy,  jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; {picturesque}]
      [WordNet 1.5]

   3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
      as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of {colorless} and
      {monochrome}.

   Note: [Narrower terms: {tinted}; {touched, tinged}; {amber,  brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; {amethyst}; {auburn,  reddish-brown}; {aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden};
         {azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue}; {bicolor,  bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue,  bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful,  blush-colored, rosy}; {bottle-green}; {bronze, bronzy};
         {brown, brownish, dark-brown}; {buff}; {canary,  canary-yellow}; {caramel, caramel brown}; {carnation};
         {chartreuse}; {chestnut}; {dun}; {earth-colored,  earthlike}; {fuscous}; {green, greenish, light-green,  dark-green}; {jade, jade-green}; {khaki}; {lavender,  lilac}; {mauve}; {moss green, mosstone}; {motley,  multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,  painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,  varicolored, varicoloured}; {mousy, mouse-colored};
         {ocher, ochre}; {olive-brown}; {olive-drab}; {olive};
         {orange, orangish}; {peacock-blue}; {pink, pinkish};
         {purple, violet, purplish}; {red, blood-red, carmine,  cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,  scarlet}; {red, reddish}; {rose, roseate}; {rose-red};
         {rust, rusty, rust-colored}; {snuff, snuff-brown,  snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,  snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel,  brownish-orange}; {stone, stone-gray}; {straw-color,  straw-colored, straw-coloured}; {tan}; {tangerine};
         {tawny}; {ultramarine}; {umber}; {vermilion,  vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; {yellow, yellowish};
         {yellow-green}; {avocado}; {bay}; {beige}; {blae
         bluish-black or gray-blue)}; {coral}; {creamy}; {cress  green, cresson, watercress}; {hazel}; {honey,  honey-colored}; {hued(postnominal)}; {magenta};
         {maroon}; {pea-green}; {russet}; {sage, sage-green};
         {sea-green}] [Also See: {chromatic}, {colored}, {dark},
         {light}.]

   Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
        [WordNet 1.5]