rainbow

The word “rainbow” has 2 syllables: rain-bow

It's pronounced as /ˈreɪnˌboʊ/


What is synonym and antonym for rainbow?

In the thesaurus, “rainbow” has 151 synonyms and 19 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for rainbow along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for rainbow

  • accumulation
  • admixture
  • agglomerate
  • agglomeration
  • aggregate
  • aggregation
  • alloy
  • alphabet soup
  • amalgam
  • arc
  • assortment
  • band of color
  • banded
  • barred
  • bichrome
  • bicolor
  • bicolored
  • blend
  • bollix
  • botch
  • bow
  • brave
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • brindle
  • brindled
  • catchall
  • chaos
  • checkered
  • chromatic
  • clutter
  • collage
  • colored
  • colorful
  • combination
  • commixture
  • composite
  • compound
  • confusion
  • conglomerate
  • conglomeration
  • crazy quilt
  • crescent
  • curve
  • dapple
  • dappled
  • detritus
  • dichromatic
  • disarrangement
  • disarray
  • disorder
  • dotted
  • farrago
  • flashy
  • flecked
  • fusion
  • gallimaufry
  • garish
  • gaudy
  • gay
  • grab bag
  • gumbo
  • hash
  • hodgepodge
  • hotchpotch
  • imbroglio
  • intermixture
  • iridescent
  • jambalaya
  • jumble
  • jungle
  • kaleidoscopic
  • knot
  • litter
  • loud
  • marbled
  • medley
  • menagerie
  • mess
  • miscellanea
  • miscellany
  • mishmash
  • mix-up
  • mixed bag
  • montage
  • morass
  • mosaic
  • motley
  • mottled
  • muddle
  • multicolored
  • multihued
  • notions
  • oddments
  • odds and ends
  • olio
  • olla podrida
  • omnium-gatherum
  • opalescent
  • parti-color
  • parti-colored
  • pastiche
  • patchwork
  • patchwork quilt
  • patterned
  • piebald
  • pied
  • pinto
  • plaid
  • plaided
  • polychromatic
  • polychrome
  • potpourri
  • prism
  • prismatic
  • ragbag
  • ragout
  • rummage
  • salad
  • salmagundi
  • scramble
  • shambles
  • showy
  • shuffle
  • smorgasbord
  • snarl
  • specked
  • speckled
  • splashy
  • spotted
  • stew
  • streaked
  • striated
  • striped
  • sundries
  • tangle
  • tapestry
  • trichromatic
  • tricolor
  • tricolored
  • tumble
  • two-tone
  • two-toned
  • varicolored
  • varied
  • variegated
  • variegation
  • variety
  • various
  • vibrant
  • welter

Antonyms for rainbow

Meanings of rainbow

  • noun
    1. A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
    2. Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
    3. (often used with “of”) A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
    4. An illusion, mirage.
    5. A curveball, particularly a slow one.
    6. In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
    7. Rainbow trout.
  • verb
    1. To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.
    2. To take the appearance of a rainbow.
  • adjective
    1. Multicolored.
    2. Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.
    3. LGBT.
    4. (chiefly of a flop) Composed entirely of different suits.

Example Sentences

  • After the storm, a vibrant rainbow appeared in the sky, bringing hope and beauty.
  • Children ran outside to catch a glimpse of the colorful rainbow arching across the horizon.
  • The artist painted a stunning rainbow landscape, capturing the magical hues of nature.
  • Legend says there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but few ever find it.
  • The double rainbow stretched across the sky, creating a breathtaking sight for all who witnessed it.

On this page you'll find 170 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to rainbow, such as: accumulation, achromatic, admixture, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

dappled

  • banded
  • barred
  • bespattered
  • blotched
  • blotchy
  • blotted
  • brindle
  • brindled
  • calico
  • checkered
  • chromatic
  • colored
  • colorful
  • discolored
  • dotted
  • dyed
  • flecked
  • freckled
  • interspersed
  • marbled
  • marked
  • moire
  • motley
  • mottled
  • multicolor
  • multicolored
  • multihued
  • parti-colored
  • peppered
  • piebald
  • pied
  • pigmented
  • pinto
  • polychromatic
  • polychrome
  • prismatic
  • rainbow
  • roan
  • set
  • shaded
  • shot
  • spangled
  • spattered
  • specked
  • speckled
  • splotched
  • splotchy
  • spotted
  • spotty
  • sprinkled
  • stained
  • stippled
  • streaked
  • striped
  • studded
  • varicolored
  • variegated
  • veined
  • versicolor
  • versicolored

fairyland

fancying

  • Atlantis
  • admiring
  • adoring
  • air castle
  • apparition
  • appearance
  • apperception
  • appreciating
  • appreciation
  • apprehension
  • authoring
  • being partial to
  • bubble
  • building
  • castle in the air
  • causation
  • cherishing
  • chimera
  • clue
  • cogitating
  • cognition
  • communing
  • composition
  • comprehension
  • conceit
  • conceiting
  • conceiving
  • concentrating
  • concept
  • conception
  • concocting
  • consideration
  • considering
  • constituting
  • construction
  • contemplating
  • contriving
  • creativity
  • daydream
  • daydreaming
  • deliberating
  • delusion
  • design
  • designing
  • devising
  • devouring
  • digging
  • dream
  • dreaming
  • enjoying
  • envisaging
  • envisioning
  • explanation
  • exposition
  • externalizing
  • fabricating
  • fabrication
  • fairyland
  • fancy
  • fantasia
  • fantasizing
  • fantasying
  • fashioning
  • favoring
  • featuring
  • figment
  • figment of imagination
  • flight
  • flight of imagination
  • fond hope
  • foreseeing
  • forging
  • formulation
  • getting a charge out of
  • getting a kick out of
  • going for
  • hallucinating
  • hallucination
  • having a soft spot for
  • head trip
  • ideating
  • idolizing
  • illusion
  • image
  • imagination
  • imaginativeness
  • imaging
  • imagining
  • impression
  • in a zone
  • inkling
  • intellection
  • interpretation
  • inventing
  • invention
  • liking
  • loving
  • making up
  • manufacturing
  • meditating
  • meditation
  • mental grasp
  • mind trip
  • mirage
  • musing
  • nightmare
  • notion
  • objectifying
  • occasioning
  • originality
  • origination
  • perception
  • performing
  • phantasm
  • phantasy
  • philosophizing
  • picture
  • picturing
  • pie in the sky
  • pipe dream
  • plan
  • planning
  • pondering
  • preferring
  • prefiguring
  • prizing
  • producing
  • production
  • projecting
  • rainbow
  • re-creating
  • realization
  • recreating
  • reflecting
  • relishing
  • reliving
  • reminiscing
  • representation
  • reverie
  • revering
  • ruminating
  • savoring
  • savouring
  • seeing
  • shaping
  • speculating
  • speculation
  • stargazing
  • taking to
  • thought
  • treasuring
  • trip
  • utopia
  • vagary
  • valuing
  • venerating
  • version
  • vision
  • visioning
  • visualizing
  • wish
  • woolgathering
  • worshiping
  • worshipping

fantasies

fantasy


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