kaleidoscopic
English
WOTD – 11 May 2007
Alternative forms
- caleidoscopic
Etymology
From kaleidoscope + -ic.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəˌlaɪdəˈskɒpɪk/
- (US) IPA(key): /kəˌlaɪdəˈskɑːpɪk/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective
kaleidoscopic (comparative more kaleidoscopic, superlative most kaleidoscopic)
- Of, relating to, or produced by a kaleidoscope.
- (figuratively) Brightly coloured and continuously changing in pattern, as if in a kaleidoscope.
- 2020 December 8, David Barnett, “How John Lennon was made into a myth”, in BBC Online:
- Like scholars picking over the childhood of Buddha, we want to understand how Lennon became the man he did, but there’s also a purity to this portrayal because it presents Lennon before the prism of fame split him into his kaleidoscopic multitude of facets that allowed artists to imprint their own ideas of what John Lennon was or should have been.
-
Translations
relating to a kaleidoscope
|
brightly coloured, changing in pattern
|