Words that rhyme with colorful

  • artful
    adj 1: not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse" [syn: disingenuous, artful] [ant: artless, ingenuous] 2: marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors" [ant: artless]
  • careful
    adj 1: exercising caution or showing care or attention; "they were careful when crossing the busy street"; "be careful to keep her shoes clean"; "did very careful research"; "careful art restorers"; "careful of the rights of others"; "careful about one's behavior" [ant: careless] 2: cautiously attentive; "careful of her feelings"; "heedful of his father's advice" [syn: careful, heedful] 3: unhurried and with care and dignity; "walking at the same measured pace"; "with all deliberate speed" [syn: careful, deliberate, measured] 4: full of cares or anxiety; "Thou art careful and troubled about many things"-Luke 10.41 5: mindful of the future in spending money; "careful with money" [syn: careful, thrifty]
  • cheerful
    adj 1: being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be" [ant: cheerless, depressing, uncheerful] 2: pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic [syn: cheerful, pollyannaish, upbeat]
  • cultural
    adj 1: of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors; "cultural events"; "a person of broad cultural interests" 2: denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people; "influenced by ethnic and cultural ties"- J.F.Kennedy; "ethnic food" [syn: cultural, ethnic, ethnical] 3: of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society; "cultural roots" 4: relating to the raising of plants or animals; "a cultural variety"
  • fearful
    adj 1: experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism" 2: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible] 3: lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley [syn: cowardly, fearful] [ant: brave, courageous] 4: extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake" [syn: fearful, frightful] 5: timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog" [syn: fearful, timorous, trepid]
  • general
    adj 1: applying to all or most members of a category or group; "the general public"; "general assistance"; "a general rule"; "in general terms"; "comprehensible to the general reader" [ant: specific] 2: not specialized or limited to one class of things; "general studies"; "general knowledge" 3: prevailing among and common to the general public; "the general discontent" 4: affecting the entire body; "a general anesthetic"; "general symptoms" [ant: local] 5: somewhat indefinite; "bearing a general resemblance to the original"; "a general description of the merchandise" 6: of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience" [syn: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world- wide] n 1: a general officer of the highest rank [syn: general, full general] 2: the head of a religious order or congregation [syn: general, superior general] 3: a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular); "he discussed the general but neglected the particular" [ant: particular, specific] v 1: command as a general; "We are generaled by an incompetent!"
  • gullible
    adj 1: naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love" [syn: fleeceable, green, gullible] 2: easily tricked because of being too trusting; "gullible tourists taken in by the shell game"
  • harmful
    adj 1: causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking" [ant: harmless]
  • helpful
    adj 1: providing assistance or serving a useful function [ant: unhelpful]
  • masterful
    adj 1: having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance" [syn: consummate, masterful, masterly, virtuoso(a)]
  • powerful
    adv 1: (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree; "the baby is mighty cute"; "he's mighty tired"; "it is powerful humid"; "that boy is powerful big now"; "they have a right nice place"; "they rejoiced mightily" [syn: mighty, mightily, powerful, right] adj 1: having great power or force or potency or effect; "the most powerful government in western Europe"; "his powerful arms"; "a powerful bomb"; "the horse's powerful kick"; "powerful drugs"; "a powerful argument" [ant: powerless] 2: strong enough to knock down or overwhelm; "a knock-down blow" [syn: knock-down(a), powerful] 3: having great influence [syn: potent, powerful] 4: (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms" [syn: brawny, hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewy] 5: displaying superhuman strength or power; "herculean exertions" [syn: herculean, powerful]
  • vulnerable
    adj 1: susceptible to attack; "a vulnerable bridge" [ant: invulnerable] 2: susceptible to criticism or persuasion or temptation; "vulnerable to bribery"; "an argument vulnerable to refutation" 3: capable of being wounded or hurt; "vulnerable parts of the body"
  • wonderful
    adj 1: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous]
  • skillful
    adj 1: having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching" [syn: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilful] 2: done with delicacy and skill; "a nice bit of craft"; "a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice shot" [syn: nice, skillful]
  • colorfast
    adj 1: having color that is resistant to fading or running
  • colorless
    adj 1: lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the parade" [syn: colorless, colourless] [ant: colorful, colourful] 2: weak in color; not colorful [syn: colorless, colourless] [ant: colorful, colourful]
  • flavorful
    adj 1: full of flavor [syn: flavorful, flavourful, flavorous, flavourous, flavorsome, flavoursome, sapid, saporous]

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