Rich vs Colorful - What's the difference?
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Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
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Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
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, title= Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.
Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
* Milton
Not faint or delicate; vivid.
(informal, dated) Very amusing.
(informal) Ridiculous, absurd.
(computing) Elaborate]], having complex [[format, formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
* 2002 , David Austerberry, The Technology of Video and Audio Streaming
* 2003 , Patricia Cardoza, Patricia DiGiacomo, Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
* 2008 , Aaron Newman, Adam Steinberg, Jeremy Thomas, Enterprise 2.0 Implementation
Of a fuel-air mixture, having less air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
(obsolete) To enrich.
Possessing]] prominent and varied [[colour, colors.
* 1895 , The Annual of the British School at Athens
Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.
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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 ).
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As adjectives the difference between rich and colorful
is that rich is as hell, very while colorful is possessing]] prominent and varied [[colour|colors.rich
English
Adjective
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Money just makes the rich suffer, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]}}
- a rich''' dish; '''rich''' cream or soup; '''rich pastry
- Sauces and rich spices are fetched from India.
- a rich''' treasury; a '''rich''' entertainment; a '''rich crop
- If life be short, it shall be glorious; / Each minute shall be rich in some great action.
- The gorgeous East with richest hand / Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.
Battle of the bulge, passage=For countries with rich culinary traditions that date back to the Aztecs and Incas, Mexico and Peru have developed quite a taste for modern food fashions. Mexicans quaff more fizzy drinks than any other country; Peru has the highest density of fast-food joints in the world.}}
- rich''' soil or land; a '''rich mine
- a rich''' dress; '''rich''' silk or fur; '''rich presents
- rich and various gems
- a rich red colour
- The scene was a rich one.
- a rich incident or character
- (Thackeray)
- A skilled multimedia developer will have no problems adding interactive video and audio into existing rich media web pages.
- Some rich text email messages contain formatting information that's best viewed with Microsoft Word.
- But what did matter was that the new web platform provided a rich experience.
Synonyms
* (wealthy) wealthy, well off, see alsoAntonyms
* (wealthy) poor; see also * (plentiful) needy * (computing) plain, unformatted, vanilla * (fuel-air mixture) leanDerived terms
* filthy rich * get-rich-quick * hood rich * neutron-rich * nickel-rich * too rich for one's blood * rags to riches * richdom * riches * richly * rich media * richness * rich tea biscuit * rich text * strike it rich * superrichVerb
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Statistics
* 1000 English basic wordscolorful
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Alternative forms
* colourful (Commonwealth English)Adjective
(-)- 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.
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- 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.