Iridescent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Producing a display of lustrous, rainbowlike colors: an iridescent oil slick; iridescent plumage.
  • adj. Brilliant, lustrous, or colorful in effect or appearance: "The prelude was as iridescent as a prism in a morning room” ( Carson McCullers).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Producing a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colors; prismatic.
  • adj. Brilliant, lustrous, or colorful.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic. See iridescence.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Exhibiting or giving out colors like those of the rainbow; gleaming or shimmering with rainbow colors; more generally, glittering with different colors which change according to the light in which they are viewed, without reference to what the colors are; lustrously versicolor; of changeable metallic sheen, as certain birds, insects, minerals, glass, fabrics, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles
  • adj. having a play of lustrous rainbow colors
  • Equivalent
    colourful    colorful    bright   
    Antonym
    dull   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    Form
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    Words with the same meaning
    nacreous    opalescent    opalesque    opaline    nacrous    prismatic   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    translucent    silvery    bluish    multicolored    milky    azure    lustrous    phosphorescent    opalescent    dazzle