variegated

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15
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17
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10
Pronunciation
/ˈvɛəɹi.əˌɡeɪtɪd/
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/ˈvɛəɹi.əˌɡeɪtɪd/ · /ˈvɛəɹɪˌɡeɪtɪd/ · /ˈvɛ(ə)ɹi.əˌɡeɪtɪd/ · /ˈvæɹ-/

Definition of variegated

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Streaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color.
    “There I beheld the painter of the year diſplaying his variegated fancies on his leafy tablets, and, with the pencil of power dipped in the æthereal bow, writing the leſſons of wiſdom divine on the fair forehead of blooming Nature.”
    “From the heights a view was now and then obtained between the lofty pine and fir-trees of the valley below with its smiling fields and variegated woods of birch and alder trees, between which the river wound like a narrow silvery streak.”
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adj

  1. Streaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color.
    “There I beheld the painter of the year diſplaying his variegated fancies on his leafy tablets, and, with the pencil of power dipped in the æthereal bow, writing the leſſons of wiſdom divine on the fair forehead of blooming Nature.”
    “From the heights a view was now and then obtained between the lofty pine and fir-trees of the valley below with its smiling fields and variegated woods of birch and alder trees, between which the river wound like a narrow silvery streak.”
  2. (broadly)Very colorful.
  3. (broadly)Varied, heterogeneous, motley
    “The challenge to heterosexuality requires that we claim, not deny, our queer character. It's sexual, it's variegated, sometimetimes its messy and, for better or worse, it's ours.”

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of variegate

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Etymology

From variegate + -ed.

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