 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
variegated
adjective: having a variety of colors [syn: {varicolored}, {varicoloured}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Variegate \Va"ri*e*gate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Variegated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Variegating}.] [L. variegatus, p. p. of
variegare to variegate; varius various + agere to move, make.
See {Various}, and {Agent}.]
To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different
colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with
marble of different colors.
The shells are filled with a white spar, which
variegates and adds to the beauty of the stone.
--Woodward.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Variegated \Va"ri*e*ga'ted\, adjective
Having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated
leaves, or flowers.
Ladies like variegated tulips show. --Pope.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
165 Moby Thesaurus words for "variegated":
assorted, at odds, at variance, bicolor, bicolored, brindled,
calico, capricious, changeable, changing, checked, checkered,
choppy, chromatic, cold, colorful, colorific, coloring, colory,
contrary, contrasted, contrasting, cool, crazy, daedal, dappled,
departing, deviating, deviative, deviatory, dichromatic, different,
differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discolor,
discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined,
disorderly, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct,
distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers,
divers-colored, diverse, diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic,
flecked, freaked, glowing, harlequin, harmonious, heterogeneous,
impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous,
inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, inharmonious,
irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, kaleidoscopic, many,
many-colored, marbled, matching, medley, mercurial, monochromatic,
monochrome, monochromic, motley, mottle, mottled, multicolor,
multicolored, multicolorous, multifarious, multihued, mutable,
nacreous, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, opalescent,
opaline, parti-color, parti-colored, piebald, pied, pigmentary,
pinto, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, polychromatic,
polychrome, polychromic, prismal, prismatic, ragged, rainbow,
rough, separate, separated, several, shot, shot through, skewbald,
spasmodic, spattered, speckled, spectral, sporadic, spotted,
stippled, streaked, thunder and lightning, tinctorial, tingent,
toning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone,
unconformable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox,
unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variant,
varicolored, varied, variform, various, varying, versicolor,
versicolored, warm, wavering, widely apart, worlds apart
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