English Explanatory Dictionary

colored

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having a color.
  2. 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. Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
  6. 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. Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
noun
  1. A colored article of clothing.
  2. A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.
  3. A colored (nonwhite) person.
verb
  1. simple past and past participle of color
adj
  1. Alternative letter-case form of colored (“non-white, or mixed race”).

Pronunciation

ʹkŭlərd /ˈkʌləɹd/ en-us-colored.ogg

Word forms

colored more colored most colored coloured coloreds

Etymology

From color + -ed.

Synonyms

colored hued Eurafrican

Antonyms

achromatic colorless

Related words

colorism person of color

Derived words

anticolored ash-colored aurora-colored aurora-coloured bicolored bicoloured brickcolored brickcoloured cherrycolored cherrycoloured clay-colored clay-coloured clay-colored thrush colored egg coloured egg colored pencil coloured pencil colored revolution coloured revolution countercolored countercoloured cream-colored courser cream-colored cream-coloured dark-colored decolored decoloured discolored discoloured dust-colored fawncolored fawncoloured flesh-colored honey-colored honey-coloured knife-colored knife-coloured lead-colored lead-coloured leadcolored leadcoloured light-colored many-colored many-coloured miscolored miscoloured monocolored monocoloured mouse-colored antshrike mouse-colored mouse-coloured multicolored natural-colored natural-coloured neon-colored neon-coloured noncolored noncoloured off-colored off-coloured

Translations

Danish: farvet Finnish: värillinen French: métis German: farbig Russian: цветно́й
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