colorful vs contradistinctive

colorful

adj
  • Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive. 

  • Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language). 

  • Possessing prominent and varied colors. 

contradistinctive

adj
  • Distinguishing by contrast 

  • Having the quality of contradistinction 

How often have the words colorful and contradistinctive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )