colorific

[ kuhl-uh-rif-ik ]
/ ˌkʌl əˈrɪf ɪk /

adjective

producing or imparting color.
pertaining to color.

Origin of colorific

First recorded in 1670–80; color + -i- + -fic

Words nearby colorific

colored, colored stone, colorfast, colorfield, colorful, colorific, colorimeter, colorimetry, coloring, coloring book, colorism

Example sentences from the Web for colorific

  • And the hundred tints of this verdure do not form the only colorific charms of the landscape.

    Two Years in the French West Indies |Lafcadio Hearn

  • The Cenci is “a vulgar vocabulary of rottenness and reptilism” in an “odiferous, colorific and daisy-enamoured style.”

    Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats |Barnette Miller

  • Without this colorific value of words, we could express little more by speech than by the symbols of algebra.

    Seaward |Richard Hovey

British Dictionary definitions for colorific

colorific
/ (ˌkʌləˈrɪfɪk) /

adjective

producing, imparting, or relating to colour