From color -ful .
colorful (comparative more colorful , superlative most colorful ) ( American spelling )
Possessing prominent and varied colors .
1895 , The Annual of the British School at Athens :It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze . These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs , which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
Interesting , multifaceted , energetic , distinctive .
1895 , H. Walter Staner, Henry Sturmey, The Autocar :One of the most colourful people in motor racing, he writes in a colourful manner.
( euphemistic ) Profane , obscene , offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language ).
2002 , news.bbc.co.uk
Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.
possessing prominent and varied colors
Albanian: shumëngjyrësh (sq)
Armenian: գունագեղ (hy) ( gunageġ )
Breton: livek (br)
Bulgarian: цветист (bg) ( cvetist ) , колоритен (bg) ( koloriten ) , пъ́стър (bg) ( pǎ́stǎr )
Catalan: colorit m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 五顏六色 / 五颜六色 ( ng5 ngaan4 luk6 sik1 ) , 花哩碌 ( faa1 li1 luk1 )
Mandarin: 豔 / 艳 (zh) ( yàn )
Cornish: liwus
Czech: barevný (cs) , pestrý (cs)
Danish: farverig
Dutch: kleurrijk (nl)
Esperanto: bunta (eo)
Finnish: värikäs (fi)
French: coloré (fr)
Galician: colorido
Georgian: ჭრელი (ka) ( č̣reli )
German: bunt (de) , kunterbunt (de) , farbig (de) , farbenprächtig , farbenfroh (de) , farbenreich
Greek: πολύχρωμος (el) ( polýchromos )
Hindi: रंगीन (hi) ( raṅgīn )
Hungarian: színes (hu)
Icelandic: litríkur (is)
Ido: koloroza (io)
Irish: dathannach , ildaite
Italian: colorato (it) , variopinto (it) , vivace (it)
Japanese: カラフル (ja)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ئاڵوواڵا ( alluwalla ) , ڕەنگاوڕەنگ ( rengawrreng )
Northern Kurdish: rengîn (ku)
Latin: colōrātus m
Manx: yl-ghaait
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fargerik (no)
Nynorsk: fargerik
Persian: رنگارنگ (fa) ( rangârang )
Plautdietsch: bunt
Polish: kolorowy (pl) , wielobarwny (pl) , barwisty , wielokolorowy (pl) , różnobarwny (pl) , różnokolorowy (pl) , tęczowy (pl)
Portuguese: colorido (pt)
Romanian: colorat (ro) , multicolor (ro)
Russian: разноцве́тный (ru) ( raznocvétnyj ) , цвета́стый (ru) ( cvetástyj ) (rare word), я́ркий (ru) ( járkij ) (bright)
Serbo-Croatian: šaren (sh) , raznobojan (sh)
Sinhalese: වර්ණවත් (si) ( warṇawat )
Spanish: lleno (es) m , de color , lleno de color
Swahili: ya rangi nyingi
Swedish: färgglad (sv) , färgrik (sv)
Telugu: రంగురంగుల ( raṅguraṅgula )
Turkish: renkli (tr) , alaca (tr) , rengarenk (tr)
Ukrainian: різнокольоро́вий ( riznokolʹoróvyj ) , барви́стий (uk) ( barvýstyj )
Urdu: رنگین ( raṅgīn )
Vietnamese: rực rỡ (vi) , sặc sỡ (vi)
Volapük: kölagik (vo)
Welsh: lliwgar (cy)
Yiddish: פֿילפֿאַרביק ( filfarbik )
Zazaki: kelebelek c
interesting, multifaceted
Translations to be checked