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colourful

/ˈkʌləfʊl/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈkʌləfʊl/
colourful
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co - lour - ful -> colourful

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ရောင်စုံတောက်ပ သော။ စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်ကောင်းသော။ ပေါ်လွင်ထင်ရှားသော။

Full entry

colour (US color ) /'kʌlǝ(r)/ n

၁။ (က) [U] အရောင်။ The garden was a mass of colour. ❍ You need more colour in this room. ❍ The leaves are changing colour.
(ခ) [C] (တစ်မျိုးမျိုးသော)အရောင်။ Red, orange, green and purple are all colours. ❍ ‘What colour is the sky?’ ‘It's blue. ’ ❍ a sky the colour of lead (ie a grey sky). See also PRIMARY COLOUR
၂။ (က) [C, U] ခြယ်ဆေး။ သုတ်ဆေး။ ဆိုးဆေး။ use plenty of bright colour in a painting ❍ She paints in water-colour(s).
(ခ) [U] (ဆေး)ရောင်စုံ။ Is the film in colour or black and white? ❍ colour photography/television/printing.
၃။ [U, sing] အသွေးအရောင်။ He has very little colour (ie is very pale). ❍ lose colour (ie become paler) ❍ She has a high colour (ie a very red face). ❍ The fresh air brought colour to their cheeks.
၄။ [U] အသားအရောင်။ be discriminated against on account of one's colour/on grounds of colour ❍ colour prejudice.
၅။ colours [pl] ကျောင်း၊ အဖွဲ့အစည်း၊ ပါတီ စသည်ကို ကိုယ်စားပြုသော တံဆိပ်၊ အရောင်။ He is racing in the royal colours (ie to show that the horse he is riding is owned by the king or queen).
၆။ colours [pl] (Brit ) ကျောင်းအားကစား အသင်းအဖွဲ့၌ အမြဲတမ်းကစားသူ၊ ထူးချွန်သူအား ချီးမြှင့်သောဆု။ get/win one's (football) colours.
၇။ colours [pl] တပ်အလံ။ သင်္ဘောအလံ။ salute the colours.
၈။ [U] (က) ဝေဆာမြိုင်ဆိုင်မှု။ Her description of the area is full of colour.
(ခ) (ဂီတလက်သံ)အရည် အသွေး။ orchestral colour ❍ His playing lacks colour.
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၁။ အရောင်ခြယ်သည်။ ဆေးခြယ်သည်။ colour a picture ❍ Lucy drew a nice picture but she coloured the sky green.
၂။ (က) အရောင်ပြောင်းသည်။ အရောင်ဝင်လာသည်။ It is autumn and the leaves are beginning to colour (ie turn brown).
(ခ) ~ (at sth) (ရှက်၍)မျက်နှာနီသွားသည်။ She coloured (with embarrassment) at his remarks.
၃။ (esp passive) အဆိုးမြင်သဘော လွှမ်းမိုးသည်။ ပုံပျက်စေသည်။ His attitude to sex is coloured by his strict upbringing. ❍ Don't allow personal loyalty to colour your judgement. ❍ She gave a highly coloured (ie exaggerated) account of the incident.
❏ colour bar (US color line ) n အသားအရောင်ရှိသူကို ခွဲ ခြားနှိမ့်ချဆက်ဆံသော စနစ်။
❏ colour-blind adj အရောင်ကန်းသော။ colour-blindness n [U]
❏ colour code n အရောင်ဖြင့်ခွဲခြားသတ်မှတ်သည့် စနစ်။ colour-coded adj
❏ coloured (US colored ) adj
၁။ (often in compounds) …အရောင်ရှိသော။ …ရောင်။ coloured chalks ❍ cream-coloured ❍ flesh-coloured.
၂။ (က) (dated often offensive ) မျက်နှာဖြူမဟုတ်သော။
(ခ) Coloured (S African ) သွေးရောသော။ …ကပြား။
n (က) (offensive ) မျက်နှာဖြူမျိုးမဟုတ်သူ။
(ခ) Coloured (S African ) ကပြား။ ဗန္ဓတ်။
❏ colour-fast adj အရောင်ခိုင်သော။ ဆေးခိုင်သော။
❏ colourful (US colorful ) /-fl/ adj
၁။ ရောင်စုံတောက်ပ သော။ a colourful dress/scene ❍ colourful material.
၂။ စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်ကောင်းသော။ ပေါ်လွင်ထင်ရှားသော။ a colourful character/life/story/period of history.
❏ colour sth in [PHRV ] အရောင်ခြယ်သည်။ The child coloured in all her drawings with a crayon.
❏ colouring n
၁။ (က) [U] အရောင်ခြယ်ခြင်း။ Children enjoy colouring. ❍ a colouring book. (ခ) [U] ဆေးရောင် ခြယ်နည်းခြယ်ဟန်။
၂။ [U] အသားအရောင်။ She has (a) very fair colouring.
၃။ [C, U] (အစားအသောက်) အရောင်တင် ဆေး။ This yoghurt contains no artificial flavouring or colouring.
❏ colourless (US colorless ) adj
၁။ အရောင်အဆင်း မရှိ သော၊ ဖျော့သော။ a colourless liquid (eg water) ❍ colourless cheeks.
၂။ မထူးခြားသော။ a colourless character/existence/style.
❏ colour scheme n လိုက်ဖက်မည့် အရောင်အသွေးများ ရွေး ချယ်အသုံးပြုခြင်း။
I don't like the colour scheme in their sitting-room.
❏ colour supplement n သတင်းစာတွင်ပါသော ဆေးရောင်စုံ မဂ္ဂဇင်းကဏ္ဍ။ အချပ်ပို။
❏ give/lend colour to sth [IDM ] ဖြစ်နိုင်ဖွယ်ရာရှိသည်။ The scars on his body lent colour to his claim that he had been tortured.
❏ off colour [IDM ] (infml ) နေမကောင်းဖြစ်သည်။ feel/look/seem a little off colour.
❏ see the colour of sb's money [IDM ] ငွေ အလုံအလောက် ပါမပါ ကြည့်သည်။ Don't let him have the car until you've seen the colour of his money.

More examples
  • Pink is my favourite colour.
  • A light brown colour
  • [change colour] : Many fruits change colour as they become ripe.
  • [in colour] : His hair is reddish in colour.
  • Pot plants add colour to a room.
  • [in colour] : Are the pictures in colour or black and white?
  • I prefer wearing dark colours.
  • Mix the colours with your paintbrush.
  • People of all creeds and colours
  • Suddenly, the colour drained from his cheeks.
  • She giggled nervously as colour flooded her face.
  • Before you spend money on a perm or colour, talk to your hairdresser.
  • [add/give/bring colour to something] : The examples chosen add colour to the writing.
  • He was wearing the colours of his favourite football team.
  • [national colours] : Australia’s national colours
  • He gained his school colours for rugby.
Synonyms
adorn, affect, alter, angle, belie, blacken, blond, bloom, blush, burn, cast, chalk, chroma, chromaticity, chromatism, chromism, coloration, colourant, colouring, complexion, cook up, crayon, crimson, darken, daub, deception, deceptive appearance, disguise, distort, doctor, dye, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enamel, enliven, exaggerate, excuse, facade, face, fake, false show, falsify, flaxen, flush, fresco, front, fudge, garble, gild, glaze, gloss, gloss over, glow, go red, guise, hue, illuminate, imbue, incline, influence, infuse, intensity, iridescence, lacquer, luminosity, magnify, mask, misrepresent, misstate, modify, overstate, pad, paint, pervert, pigment, pigmentation, pinken, platinum, plea, polychromasia, prejudice, pretence, pretext, put-on, redden, rouge, saturation, semblance, shade, show, slant, stain, stipple, suffuse, taint, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, twist, undertone, value, variegate, warp, wash
Antonyms
be truthful, blanch, bleach, discolour, dull, honesty, leave alone, lighten, openness, pale, reality, represent, straighten, truth, white, whiten
Cross references
adornaffectalteranglebelieblackenblondbloomblushburncastchalkchromachromaticitychromatismchromismcolorationcolourantcolouringcomplexioncook upcrayoncrimsondarkendaubdeceptiondeceptive appearancedisguise
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