polychromatic

polychromatic
adj
1. polychrome, many-colored, many-hued, parti-colored, versicolored, multicolored, decorated or executed in many colors, Archaic. motley, harlequin; colorful, diversified, rich, gorgeous, gay, of all manner of colors, of all the colors of the rainbow or the spectrum; prismatic, kaleidoscopic, spectral, rainbow, technicolored; crazy, psychedelic.
2. variegated, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, iridescent, peacocklike, pavonine; chameleonlike, chameleonic.

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