Adjective

(-)

Possessing]] prominent and varied [[colour, 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.

* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=H. Walter Staner and Henry Sturmey, title=The Autocar,

passage=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.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Pulsing with energy or activity

He has a vibrant personality.

Lively and vigorous

Vibrating, resonant or resounding

* {{quote-journal

, year=1770 , title=The Empire of Love. / A Philosophical Poem. , journal=Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose, English and Latin , page=111 , publisher=T. Bensley, for J. White , author=Anthony Champion , passage=Mock their pale vigils, void and vain, / Whether, more curious than humane, / Like Augurs old, they pore / On the still-vibrant fibre's frame;}}

* {{quote-book

, title=The Singing of the Future , author=David Thomas Ffrangcon-Davies , publisher=J. Lane , year=1905 , page=258 , passage=A vibrant voice in the true sense is of course desirable}}

(of a colour) bright