Adjective

(en adjective)

(of perception) Clear, detailed or powerful.

(of an image) Bright, intense or colourful.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}

Full of life, strikingly alive.

*{{quote-book, year=1907, author=

, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=32 citation , passage=The vivid , untrammeled life appealed to him, and for a time he had found delight in it; but he was wise and knew that once peace was established there would be no room in Cuba for the Sin Verguenza.}}

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.