different between particoloured vs kaleidoscopic

English

Alternative forms

• particolored (US)
• parti-colored

Adjective

particoloured (comparative more particoloured, superlative most particoloured)

1. Made up of sections having different, often bright, colours.

Synonyms

• motley, multicolored, polychromatic; see also Thesaurus:multicolored

Derived terms

• particoloured bat
• particoloured bear

Translations

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)

1. Of, relating to, or produced by a kaleidoscope.
2. (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.

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