Colored

Quick meaning: Colored is an adjective meaning Having a color.

Meaning

Having a color.

More Meanings

1. (in combination) Having a particular color or kind of color.
2. Having prominent colors; colorful.
3. Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
4. (US, now dated and usually offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
5. (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
6. (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, sometimes capitalized) Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.)
7. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).

Example Sentences

The singer wore a colored shirt.

The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.

Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.

[…] a beautiful silk standard donated to the Third Battalion by the colored ladies of the city of New York, was formally presented to the battalion.

Word Forms

• coloured
• Coloured
• coloreds

Synonyms for colored

Depending on context, synonyms include hued, aureate, chromatic, gilded, carmine, azure.

Antonyms for colored

Common opposites include achromatic, colorless, colourless, uncolored, uncoloured.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include colorful, particolored, multicolored, varicoloured, multicolor, particoloured.

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