polychromatic — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Showing a variety, or a change, of colours; having many colours.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Synonyms

   see at polychrome

   Examples

   More examples (2)

   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.

   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: […]

2. Composed of more than one wavelength.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • of electromagnetic radiation

Adjective

1. (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) composed of more than one wavelength

   Antonyms

   monochromatic

   Examples

   polychromatic light

2. having or exhibiting many colors

   Synonyms

   polychromepolychromic