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Variegated

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Having streaks, marks, or patches of a different color or colors; varicolored: "If they recall the Colosseum . . . it is only as a showcase for cats more variegated than any fevered artist's mind could imagine” ( Michael Mewshaw).

adj. Distinguished or characterized by variety; diversified.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Streaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color; very colorful.

v. Simple past tense and past participle of variegate.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Having marks or patches of different colors.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Varied in color; irregularly marked with different colors.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. having a variety of colors

Word Usage

"The postcard just has two colours of fabric on it (plum and purple), separated by eyelash yarn in variegated purple - some other yarn couched down, some charms and another, different colour of eyelash yarn around the outside."

Equivalent

varied

Antonym

uniform

Cross Reference

variegated pebbleware variegated tanager variegated sheldrake variegated monkey variegated spider-monkey

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

diversify counterchange variate vary varify

Verb Stem

variegate

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

colorful iridescent colored many-colored striped