Colored

/ˈkʌləɹd/ · adjective

Meaning

Having a color..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having a color.
2. (in combination) Having a particular color or kind of color.
3. Having prominent colors; colorful.
4. Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
5. (US, now dated and usually offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
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).
8. (laundry) A colored article of clothing.

Example Sentences

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

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

Nara and its deer are so closely associated that the light-brown colored animals are pictured in the city’s tourism ads, on buses, train tickets and more.

The singer wore a colored shirt.

Mr. Brewer gave me his version of the history of the Conference of Studio Unions. It appeared to me then and appears to me now to have been a very colored view.

But by and large, a majority of Sanduskians never read any newspaper other than the local journal and I am convinced that they get a far more colored view of national news than they did when the city had competing dailies.

The organization's traditions and culture are inwardly focused. It is not conceivable that an alternative solution could exist. This results in a very colored view of the marketplace.

[…] 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.

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Word Forms

• more colored
• most colored
• coloured
• Colored
• Coloured
• coloreds

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