Synonyms of colorfully

colorfully

adverb

as in brightly

in a manner that is colorful and tends to arouse gaiety

a colorfully illustrated children's alphabet book

Synonyms & Similar Words

• brightly
• brilliantly
• neatly
• bravely
• flamboyantly
• richly
• gaily
• garishly
• gaudily
• ostentatiously
• strikingly
• loud
• ornately
• gorgeously
• loudly
• flashily
• spectacularly
• conspicuously
• smartly
• splendidly
• luridly
• nattily
• pertly
• dashingly
• fancily
• spiffily
• swankily
• gallantly
• jazzily
• snappily
• dapperly
• shockingly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dully
• unobtrusively
• inconspicuously
• drably
• modestly
• quietly
• boringly
• plainly
• demurely
• simply
• unpretentiously
• conservatively
• chastely
• severely
• somberly
• colorlessly
• bleakly

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of colorfully

Mexican Maria’s Mexican Restaurant Maria’s is woman-owned and colorfully painted with bright, Latin American murals. — Eva Flowe november 4, Charlotte Observer, 4 Nov. 2026

The Canada phenomenon reflects, albeit more colorfully, sourcing trends seen on a global scale. — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026

Union members and their supporters were dressed colorfully, clad in red or green, and their march through the Brussels city center passed off peacefully. — Mark Carlson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

Jeon Do-yeon, who plays the family’s matriarch, is colorfully slinky as a globe-trotting party widow, a vain, compulsively seductive narcissist who macks on her daughters’ men like a Real Housewife given a villain’s edit. — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2026

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