different between motley vs kaleidoscopic
motley
English
Etymology
From Middle English motle, from Anglo-Norman motteley (“parti-colored”), late 14th c., from Old English mot (“speck”), cognate with mote.
Equivalent to mottle +? -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?tli/
Adjective
motley (comparative more motley or motlier, superlative most motley or motliest)
- Comprising greatly varied elements, to the point of incongruity.
- Synonyms: heterogeneous, diverse, manifold; see also Thesaurus:heterogeneous
- Having many colours; variegated.
- Synonyms: colorful, prismatic, variegated; see also Thesaurus:multicolored
Derived terms
- motley crew
Translations
Noun
motley (plural motleys)
- An incongruous mixture.
- A jester's multicoloured clothes.
- (by extension) A jester; a fool.
Translations
Anagrams
- etymol.
motley From the web:
- what motley means
- what motley fool
- what motley crue members are still alive
- what motley crue looks like now
- what motley crue song are you
- what motley crue member died
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kaleidoscopic
English
Alternative forms
- caleidoscopic
Etymology
From kaleidoscope +? -ic.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??la?d??sk?p?k/
- (US) IPA(key): /k??la?d??sk??p?k/
Adjective
kaleidoscopic (comparative more kaleidoscopic, superlative most kaleidoscopic)
- Of, relating to, or produced by a kaleidoscope.
- (figuratively) Brightly coloured and continuously changing in pattern, as if in a kaleidoscope.
- December 8 2020, David Barnett, "How John Lennon was made into a myth[1]" in BBC Online
- Like scholars picking over the childhood of Buddha, we want to understand how Lennon became the man he did, but there’s also a purity to this portrayal because it presents Lennon before the prism of fame split him into his kaleidoscopic multitude of facets that allowed artists to imprint their own ideas of what John Lennon was or should have been.
- December 8 2020, David Barnett, "How John Lennon was made into a myth[1]" in BBC Online
Translations
kaleidoscopic From the web:
- kaleidoscopic meaning
- what does kaleidoscope mean
- what is kaleidoscopic vision
- what is kaleidoscopic packaging
- what is kaleidoscopic reading
- what is kaleidoscopic disintegration
- what does kaleidoscope symbolize
- kaleidoscope world
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