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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brilliant, intensely hued |
| Synonyms: | bright, chromatic, flashy, florid, gaudy, gay, hued, intense, jazzy, kaleidoscopic, loud, motley, multicolored, picturesque, prismatic, psychedelic, rich, showy, splashy, variegated, vibrant, vivid |
| Antonyms: | colorless, drab, dreary, faded, plain, uncolored, uncolorful |
| Main Entry: | bold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright, striking |
| Synonyms: | clear, colorful, conspicuous, definite, evident, eye-catching, flashy, forceful, lively, loud, manifest, plain, prominent, pronounced, showy, spirited, strong, vivid |
| Antonyms: | faint, fair, light |
| Main Entry: | bright |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vivid in color |
| Synonyms: | brave, brilliant, clear, colored, colorful, deep, flashy, fresh, gay, glitzy, hued, intense, psychedelic, razzle-dazzle, rich, ruddy, sharp, showy, tinged, tinted |
| Antonyms: | light, pale, pastel |
| Main Entry: | different |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dissimilar, unlike |
| Synonyms: | a far cry from, altered, antithetic, at odds, at variance, changed, clashing, colorful, contradistinct, contradistinctive, contrary, contrasting, contrastive, deviating, differential, discrepant, disparate, distant, distinct, distinctive, divergent, divers, diverse, incommensurable, incomparable, inconsistent, individual, like night and day, mismatched, mismated, offbeat, opposed, other, otherwise, particular, peculiar, poles apart, single, unalike, unequal, unrelated, unsimilar, variant, various |
| Antonyms: | alike, correspondent, homogeneous, like, resembling, same, similar |
| Main Entry: | exotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not native or usual; mysterious |
| Synonyms: | alien, alluring, avant garde, bizarre, colorful, curious, different, enticing, external, extraneous, extraordinary, extrinsic, far out, fascinating, foreign, glamorous, imported, introduced, kinky*, outlandish, outside, peculiar, peregrine, romantic, strange, striking, unfamiliar, unusual, way out, weird* |
| Notes: | erotic means giving sexual pleasure or sexually arousing, while exotic means being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world or strikingly strange or unusual |
| Antonyms: | familiar, normal, ordinary, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | telling, revealing |
| Synonyms: | alive, allusive, articulate, artistic, brilliant, colorful, demonstrative, dramatic, eloquent, emphatic, energetic, forcible, graphic, indicative, ingenious, lively, masterly, meaningful, mobile, moving, passionate, pathetic, pictorial, picturesque, poignant, pointed, pregnant, representative, responsive, revelatory, showy, significant, silver-tongued, spirited, stimulating, stirring, striking, strong, suggestive, sympathetic, tender, thoughtful, touching, understanding, vivid, warm |
| Antonyms: | expressionless, inexpressive, passive, undemonstrative |
| Main Entry: | flamboyant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extravagant, theatrical |
| Synonyms: | baroque, bombastic, brilliant, camp, chichi*, colorful, dashing, dazzling, elaborate, exciting, flaky*, flaming, flashy, florid, gassy, gaudy, glamorous, jazzy, luscious, luxuriant, ornate, ostentatious, peacockish, pretentious, resplendent, rich, rococo, showy, splashy, sporty, swank, swashbuckling |
| Antonyms: | calm, moderate, modest, restrained, tasteful, unflashy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fresh |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | refreshing to the senses |
| Synonyms: | bracing, bright, brisk, clean, clear, colorful, cool, crisp, definite, fair, invigorating, not stale, pure, quick, sharp, spanking, sparkling, stiff, stimulating, sweet, uncontaminated, unpolluted, vivid |
| Antonyms: | stale, tired |
| Main Entry: | gala |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | celebratory |
| Synonyms: | bright, colorful, convivial, festal, festive, gay, happy, jovial, joyful, merry |
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