Variegated

Quick meaning: Variegated is an adjective meaning Streaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Very colorful.
2. (by extension) Varied, heterogeneous, motley
3. simple past and past participle of variegate

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Synonyms for variegated

Depending on context, synonyms include patterned, distinct, marked, motley, multicolored, polychromatic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include varicolored, varicoloured, varied, pied, diverse, striped.

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