colorful vs multi-coloured

colorful

adj
  • Possessing prominent and varied colors. 

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

  • Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive. 

multi-coloured

adj
  • Britain standard spelling of multi-colored. 

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