Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having streaks, marks, or patches of a different color or colors; varicolored: "If they recall the Colosseum . . . it is only as a showcase for cats more variegated than any fevered artist's mind could imagine” ( Michael Mewshaw).
- adj. Distinguished or characterized by variety; diversified.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Varied in color; irregularly marked with different colors.
Wiktionary
- adj. Streaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color; very colorful.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of variegate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having marks or patches of different colors.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a variety of colors
Examples
“The postcard just has two colours of fabric on it (plum and purple), separated by eyelash yarn in variegated purple - some other yarn couched down, some charms and another, different colour of eyelash yarn around the outside.”
“Given my tree theme this week, I decided to add some trees, and some lawn/grass in variegated green.”
“I was left to design and execute the lettering in variegated gold and One Shot enamel.”
“And I love it in variegated thread on a black background.”
“His fancy had sketched a pleasing picture of beautiful floating domiciles, moored under the banks of the river, and inhabited by a hundred thousand people in variegated costume; he recalled to memory the stories of the lofty pagodas lifting roof above roof, ... the snug cottages with the picturesque bridges and the comfortable Chinaman under the shade of a willow, with nothing to do but fish, all of which we have been accustomed to read, and pictures of which served to amuse us in our childhood ....”
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
“There is also a so-called variegated form, but it is not worthy of mention.”
“Vertical plants such as horsetails, rushes and papyrus are a key element in designing such an environment and one of the loveliest - and lesser known - of these moisture-loving verticals is Baumea rubiginosa 'Variegata,' otherwise known as variegated striped rush.”
“They were of the species [Ursus horribilis] common to the upper part of the Missouri, and might well be termed the variegated bear, for they are found occasionally of a black, grizzly, brown, or red color.”
First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6
“The editors of Memories of Eden, Mira and Tony Rocca received this moving letter from a Mandaean reader, who recalls the variegated social fabric which the book's author, Violette Shamash, describes.”
“I have non-variegated which is both uglier and more pernicious.”
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GRE Barron's 800
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GRE 2014
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Visual landscapes
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Les Misérables
A selection of words from the epic by Victor Hugo
perquisites, dispensations, execrate, spikenard, fireplaace, effeminate foppery, delaine, hoarfrost, lackadaisicalness, ort, geldings, milch and 103 more...
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Hit Parade GRE
Princeton Review words
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cadence, frenetic, eloquence, paradigm, nocturne, elusive, effervescence, soliloquy, plethora, elision, aqueous, transcend and 166 more...
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lester
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lll
alit, plinth, eclat, diaphanous, portico, nival, daedal, apse, fossa, pellet, avail, midge and 143 more...
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collection
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ADW1
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