(also multicolour, US multicolored)
Having many colours.
- These squares are planted with vegetables of contrasting colours, which gives the impression of a multicoloured checker-board.
- Our multicolored rainbow fits into just one octave in the middle of this broad spectrum - the octave we call light.
- Only, somehow, the package was chewed into a mutinous, multicolored glob of rainbow goo.
kaleidoscopic, psychedelic, colourful, multicolour, many-coloured, many-hued, rainbow, jazzy, particoloured, varicoloured, variegated, harlequin, motley, prismatic, polychromatic;
North American pinto
informal (looking) like an explosion in a paint factory
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