parti-color

1. 1.

   make motley; color with different colors

   Synonymsmotley

   Broadercolor

Questions about parti-color

What does parti-color mean?

parti-color means "make motley; color with different colors".

How many syllables are in parti-color?

parti-color has 4 syllables: par-ti--co-lor. The stress falls on "ti-".

What is another word for parti-color?

Close synonyms include motley. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is parti-color a common word?

parti-color is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.