Kaleidoscopic - English meaning

noun

A mute character in traditional pantomime, typically masked and dressed in a diamond-patterned costume.

Usage examples:

Canio's character, pagliaccio, catches his wife with the young harlequin, played by the troupe's ju…

adjective

In varied colours; variegated.

Usage examples:

The custom cabinets look like bright circus blocks, the tile backsplash has a harlequin pattern, an…

noun

A humorous character in plays at the theatre, especially in the past, who wears brightly coloured clothes with a diamond pattern

adjective

Incongruously varied in appearance or character; disparate.

Usage examples:

A motley crew of discontents and zealots

noun

An incongruous mixture.

Usage examples:

A motley of interacting interest groups

adjective

Consisting of many different types, parts, or colors that do not seem to belong together

Usage examples:

A motley crew of educators and students gathered at the seminar.

adjective

Having several or many different colours

Usage examples:

The store has a range of multicolour fabrics to choose from., you don't have to design complicated …

adjective

Having many colours.

Usage examples:

These squares are planted with vegetables of contrasting colours, which gives the impression of a m…

adjective

Having many different colours

Usage examples:

Multicoloured fish, a multicoloured scarf

adjective

Of two or more or of varying colours; multicoloured.

Usage examples:

Patterned polychromatic brickwork

adjective

Involving or producing light in all colors

adjective

Relating to or having the form of a prism or prisms.

Usage examples:

A prismatic structure

adjective

Containing, shaped like, or relating to a prism (= a transparent glass or plastic object that separates white light into different colours)

Usage examples:

A prismatic compass, the mineral often occurs as long, white prismatic crystals., when the sun rose…

adjective

Relating to or denoting drugs (especially lsd) that produce hallucinations and apparent expansion of consciousness.

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Psychedelic drugs

noun

A psychedelic drug.

Usage examples:

Our intuition tells us that using drugs use such as heroin, cocaine, psychedelics, hashish, and eve…

adjective

Causing unusually strong experiences of color, sound, smell, taste, and touch, and other mental effects such as feelings of deep understanding or hallucination (= imagining things that do not exist)

noun

An arch of colours visible in the sky, caused by the refraction and dispersion of the sun's light by rain or other water droplets in the atmosphere. the colours of the rainbow are generally said to be red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

Usage examples:

All the colours of the rainbow

adjective

Consisting of several different colours.

Usage examples:

The varicoloured light from the lanterns

adjective

Exhibiting different colours, especially as irregular patches or streaks.

Usage examples:

Variegated yellow bricks

verb

Alter in appearance, especially by adding different colours.

Usage examples:

The designer can variegate the object's colour and physical character as needed

adjective

Having a pattern of different colours or marks

Usage examples:

Variegated leaves, a variegated plant