This post is in response to Heena Rathore P.’s Word of the Week (WOW). This weekly challenge is a great way of improving your vocabulary. If you wish to participate, simply create a post with your word and leave a link in a comment on Heena’s WOW post. This week I’ve also added a bonus gallery of pictures from the garden to finish off…
Here’s my WOW for this week:
Word
Variegated
Pronunciation
var-i-e-ga-ted (vâr′ē-ĭ-gā′tĭd)
Part of Speech
Adjective
Related Forms
Verb: variegate
Noun: variegation
Adjective: unvariegated
Meaning
1. having discrete markings in different colours
2. including many different things: full of variety
Word Origin
1660s – from Latin variegat- ‘made varied’ (from the verb variegare, from varius ‘diverse’) + ed
Synonyms
1) chromatic, coloured, colourful, kaleidoscopic, motley, mottled, multicoloured, multihued, polychromatc, polychrome, polychromus, prismatic, rainbow, varicoloured, varied, versicolour, versicoloured
2) assorted, divers, diverse, diversified, heterogeneous, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, multifarious, multiform, sundry, varied, various
Antonyms
colourless, monotone, monochrome, monochomatic, solid, unvariegated
Use in a Sentence
1) With the vividly variegated hues of their garments the dancer were as entrancing as a flock of exotic of birds.
The final plant pictured in the gallery I found to be particularly interesting. It’s a single plant but the clumps of flowers are all slightly different shades – it definitely fits the word ‘variegated’!
Lovely flowers (I guess, from your garden). The word suits them perfectly. Thanks for sharing, Louise. 🙂
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Thank you, Norma! The flowers are from my garden. I had no idea there were so many plants and flowers out there that would fit the word ‘variegated’ – I’d expected to find only one or two!
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They are really beautiful. I guess you would be working too hard on them or is it the magical soil. 😉
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Thank you for sharing this useful word! 🙂
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lovely variegation!
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