colorfully

adverb

as in brightly
in a manner that is colorful and tends to arouse gaiety a colorfully illustrated children's alphabet book

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Recent Examples of colorfully All this scattershot world-building and world-visiting allows for some colorfully diverting vignettes, in which production designer Alexandra Walker and costume designer Ann Maskrey get to show off their giddy, gaudy wares. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 22 Aug. 2026 The sitting room is painted in Farrow & Ball’s blush Setting Plaster and paired colorfully with a sage-green corduroy sofa and a chintz secondhand armchair. — Katharine Sohn, Architectural Digest, 6 Aug. 2026 Today, they are sold in colorfully catchy packaging in forms of powder, tablets, liquid shots, gummies, and even vapes. — David Manheim, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2026 Room 1134’s distressed leather and cast iron accents, dimmable overhead lighting, and wide plank oakwood flooring counterbalance colorfully ombre shades, brocade throws, and a cushy seafoam blue loveseat at the foot of the (very plush) bed. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026 In what turns out to be the biggest moment in Neil’s young serving career, the handyman and Berzatto family friend keeps his composure and colorfully chats up the diner everyone believed was the Michelin-star inspector. — Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 26 June 2026 Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt’s collaboration didn’t begin colorfully or dramatically; Fratti just liked Orcutt and said so publicly, prompting Orcutt to reach out, which resulted in their working—remotely, mostly—on a series of pieces. — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 2 June 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award-winner Poltz was colorfully introduced by his longtime musician friend, former San Diego Padres second baseman and third base coach Tim Flannery. — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2026 The characters are colorfully dressed but also comfortably. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for colorfully
brightly
Adverb
  • In Los Angeles, for example, there’s a billboard that shows an image of a smiling girl wearing Meta glasses, with her fingers placed to draw attention to the recording light that shines as brightly as her grin.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026
  • All three are in brightly colored dresses intertwined with flowers, birds, trees and mountains.
    — Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
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“Colorfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colorfully. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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