Definition of 'colourful'

International referees can often become as colourful and controversial as the men they are charged with policing.

His language was colourful and perhaps that was why so many of the players loved it.

You could meet your new love where colourful clothes are sold.

How does your husband feel about your colourful past?

Yet its ports are picturesque and its history rich and colourful.

Her language is as colourful as her barnet.

The smoking jacket has a colourful history.

It also has a colourful and troubled history.

The third thing to note is that the building in which the gallery is housed has a colourful past.

He really is a colourful character.

Few trainers have a more colourful background than Brown.

BBC1 Glam rock is regarded as one of the most exciting and colourful periods in pop.

The colourful, often controversial lives of world champions have featured on the big screen.

Some colourful, braver clothes would suit her personality so much more.

In a book brimming with colourful and curious characters, two names stand out.

His stance was uncompromising and his language colourful, but he was not saying anything new.

He has a very colourful background and claims to have slept with more than 1,000 men and women.

I yearn for colourful clothes with a modern twist on classic.

I would love to be more colourful with my clothes and this situation is getting me down.

He used quite colourful language.

Its colourful past has given it layer upon layer of history, but these days the city is very much a modern metropolis.

There's no doubt he was one of the most colourful and exciting fighters of his era with an amazing capacity to absorb tremendous punishment.

Indeed, an array of colourful characters have sought to acquire English football clubs.

Three individual characters as colourful and loud as each other, they say the fact their styles and personalities are so different has enabled them to become friends.

A large, often colourful sail that is raised at the front of a yacht to increase speed during races when the wind is not particularly strong.