kaleidoscopic

[ kuh-lahy-duh-skop-ik ]

/ kəˌlaɪ dəˈskɒp ɪk /

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adjective

of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.

changing form, pattern, color, etc., in a manner suggesting a kaleidoscope.

continually shifting from one set of relations to another; rapidly changing: the kaleidoscopic events of the past year.

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3 changeable, fluctuating, protean, variable.

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Also ka·lei·do·scop·i·cal .

Origin of kaleidoscopic

First recorded in 1840–50; kaleidoscope + -ic

OTHER WORDS FROM kaleidoscopic

ka·lei·do·scop·i·cal·ly, adverb

Words nearby kaleidoscopic

Kalat, kalathos, Kalb, kale, kaleidoscope, kaleidoscopic, Kalemie, kalendar, kalends, Kaleva, Kalevala

How to use kaleidoscopic in a sentence

Yet in the years and decades afterward, I’ve seen flowers return in kaleidoscopic carpets.
At Glacier’s Edge, the Flames Have Always Come for My Family Cabin|jversteegh|August 20, 2021|Outside Online
The spectacular kaleidoscopic effects are the result of charged particles from the Sun being dumped into the Earth's magnetosphere, where they collide with oxygen and nitrogen molecules—an interaction that excites those molecules and makes them glow.
New analysis confirms hypothesis for source of mysterious auroral “dunes”|Jennifer Ouellette|May 13, 2021|Ars Technica
The Vox Book Club spent April reading Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji, a ferocious and kaleidoscopic novel about the mysterious death of a young man in Nigeria.
Novelist Akwaeke Emezi talks writing a nonbinary novel|Constance Grady|May 7, 2021|Vox
In Akwaeki Emezi’s ferocious and kaleidoscopic novel, the real mystery is whether Vivek truly lived.
How The Death of Vivek Oji inverts the murder mystery|Constance Grady|April 16, 2021|Vox

That was the improbable genesis of “Midnight Cowboy,” the 1969 classic of two outcasts who find heartbreak and hope in the kaleidoscopic jungle of New York City.
‘Midnight Cowboy’ was a masterpiece made of desperation|James Hirsch|April 2, 2021|Washington Post
The kaleidoscopic mobile changes no matter how you look at it—or where you stand.
The Best Things to See at Frieze Art Fair NY 2013|Isabel Wilkinson|May 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It was both linear and kaleidoscopic, if that makes any sense.
The Final Roar: Paul Reid on Finishing William Manchester’s Life of Churchill|Kevin Canfield|November 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST
His Cezannes show the Frenchman at his most kaleidoscopic, breaking the world into shards.
Philadelphia’s Reopened Barnes Foundation Puts Its Masterpieces in a Better Light|Blake Gopnik|May 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST
A kaleidoscopic installation of 650 quilts spirals up to the ceiling in a grand display.
Infinite Variety: The Quilt Show's Catch-22|Lizzie Crocker|March 29, 2011|DAILY BEAST
But Walter Harkness, standing at the window, stared out from troubled, frowning eyes that saw nothing of the kaleidoscopic scene.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931|Various
Boston's religious history is most interesting, although almost kaleidoscopic in its changes.
Ocean to Ocean on Horseback|Willard Glazier
The kaleidoscopic view came so fast that Anders had trouble sorting his new impressions.
Warm|Robert Sheckley
The whole cloak making trade of New York presents, for an outside observer, the kaleidoscopic interest of a population not static.
Making Both Ends Meet|Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt
In the swift and kaleidoscopic changes which occur in (p. 340) world politics, the friend of to-day may be the enemy of to-morrow.
1914|John French, Viscount of Ypres