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BRIGHTLY-COLOURED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brightly-coloured mean?
• BRIGHTLY-COLOURED (adjective)
The adjective BRIGHTLY-COLOURED has 1 sense:
1. having a bright color
Familiarity information: BRIGHTLY-COLOURED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BRIGHTLY-COLOURED (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a bright color
Synonyms:
brightly-colored; brightly-coloured
Similar:
colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)
Context examples
This material was blown out by strong stellar winds and energised by ultraviolet radiation from the hot stellar core left behind, creating a circumstellar nebula of dust and brightly-coloured hot gas.
(The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula, ESO)
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