colorfully

English

Alternative forms

• colourfully

Etymology

Etymology tree

English colorful

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English colorfully

From colorful + -ly.

Adverb

colorfully (comparative more colorfully, superlative most colorfully)

1. In a colorful manner.
   • 1992, Robert Gibbons, A Primer in Game Theory, Prentice-Hall, page 92:

     Put slightly more colorfully, if a player left a strategy with his or her lawyer before the game began, the lawyer could play the game for the player without ever needing further instructions as to how to play.

Translations

Translations

• Polish: barwiście, barwnie (pl), kolorowo (pl)