Meanings
- not comparablerareBeing multiple hues.
Mandy was in the bedroom, face down on her polyhued Latina bedspread.
2013, Jude Cook, Byron Easy, →ISBN, page 3013 more examples
multifaceted, polyhued children, / angry and loving, pallid an bronzed, […]
1978, Grito Del Sol, page 102[…] reaches out her earthen hand and manipulates a rainbow of pulsators : the fingers meander through the polyhued tumescent tubers, bringing succor to aching machinations as they explode, erupting with fury and programmed responses, […]
1989, Ricardo Sánchez, Bertrand & the mehkqoverse: a xicano filmic nuance, →ISBN, page 6A world where polyhued people kicked it without ever even considering the concept that someone was an "other." One nation under a freakishly funky groove.
2007, Shawn Taylor, Tribe Called Quest's People's Instinctive Travels, →ISBN, page 24Synonyms: motley, multicolored, polychromatic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveBeing multiple hues.
Origin
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polyhued. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polyhued
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