polychromatic
adjUS /ˌpɑlikɹəˈmætɪk/ · UK /ˌpɒlikɹəʊˈmætɪk/
Etymology From poly- + chromatic.
1
Showing a variety, or a change, of colours; having many colours.
- With our water goggles adjusted we gazed at the fishes displaying their polychromatic scales to the sea world, as, with true Puka-Pukan languor, they finned from coral to coral.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 76:
- As I rounded the corner nearest my hotel the Afrite coachman of the polychromatic, nonpareil coat seized me, swung open the dungeony door of his peripatetic sarcophagus, flirted his feather duster and began his ritual: […]1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “(please specify the story)”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:
2
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Of electromagnetic radiation Composed of more than one wavelength.
- Synonyms
- motley, multicolored, polyhued
- Antonyms
- monochromatic
- Derived terms
- polychromatic acid, polychromatically