Variegated

/ˈvɛəɹi.əˌɡeɪtɪd/ · adjective

Meaning

Streaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color..

Definitions by Sense

1. Streaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color.
2. (by extension) Very colorful.
3. (by extension) Varied, heterogeneous, motley
4. simple past and past participle of variegate

Example Sentences

There I beheld the painter of the year diſplaying his variegated fancies on his leafy tablets, and, with the pencil of power dipped in the æthereal bow, writing the leſſons of wiſdom divine on the fair forehead of blooming Nature.

From the heights a view was now and then obtained between the lofty pine and fir-trees of the valley below with its smiling fields and variegated woods of birch and alder trees, between which the river wound like a narrow silvery streak.

The challenge to heterosexuality requires that we claim, not deny, our queer character. It's sexual, it's variegated, sometimetimes its messy and, for better or worse, it's ours.

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• more variegated
• most variegated

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