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Colored

Colored Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Colored? [n] a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive [adj] having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples" [adj] having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain" [adj] (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde" [adj] favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the defendant" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Colored: aflame(p) \| artificial \| auburn \| bay \| biased \| bichrome \| bicolor \| bicolored \| bicolour \| bicoloured \| black \| blackened \| bleached \| blue \| blueish \| bluish \| colored person \| colorful \| coloured \| crimson \| dark \| dark-skinned \| dichromatic \| dyed \| empurpled \| flushed \| ginger \| gingery \| hued(p) \| in color(p) \| monochromatic \| monochrome \| monochromic \| monochromous \| motley \| multicolor \| multicolored \| multicolour \| multicoloured \| one-sided \| painted \| partial \| particolored \| particoloured \| piebald \| pied \| polychromatic \| polychrome \| polychromic \| purple \| red \| reddened \| reddish \| reddish-brown \| red-faced \| roan \| slanted \| tinged \| tinted \| touched \| trichromatic \| trichrome \| tricolor \| unfair \| unreal \| varicolored \| varicoloured Related Terms \| Find terms related to Colored: adorned \| affected \| antiblack \| apocryphal \| apparent \| artificial \| assumed \| bastard \| befrilled \| biased \| black \| black-skinned \| bogus \| brummagem \| chauvinistic \| colorable \| counterfeit \| counterfeited \| dark-complexioned \| dark-skinned \| decorated \| deep \| deep-colored \| distorted \| doctrinaire \| dogmatic \| dressed up \| dummy \| dyed \| embellished \| embroidered \| ersatz \| factitious \| fake \| faked \| falsified \| fancy \| feigned \| festooned \| fictitious \| fictive \| figurative \| figured \| florid \| flowery \| full \| full-colored \| garbled \| gilded \| hued \| illegitimate \| imbued \| imitation \| in color \| in Technicolor \| influenced \| interested \| jaundiced \| junky \| know-nothing \| lush \| luxuriant \| make-believe \| man-made \| melanian \| melanic \| melanistic \| melano \| melanotic \| melanous \| meretricious \| mock \| nonobjective \| one-sided \| opinionated \| ornate \| ostensible \| overcharged \| overloaded \| partial \| partisan \| perverted \| phony \| pinchbeck \| plausible \| prejudiced \| prepossessed \| pretended \| pseudo \| purple \| put-on \| quasi \| queer \| racist \| seeming \| self-styled \| sexist \| sham \| shoddy \| simulated \| so-called \| soi-disant \| specious \| spurious \| stained \| superpatriotic \| supposititious \| swayed \| synthetic \| tendentious \| tin \| tinct \| tinctured \| tinged \| tinsel \| tinted \| titivated \| toned \| twisted \| ultranationalist \| unauthentic \| undetached \| undispassionate \| ungenuine \| unnatural \| unneutral \| unreal \| warped \| wash-colored \| xenophobic See Also \| Black \| black person \| blackamoor \| Negro \| Negroid Colored In Webster's Dictionary \Col"ored\, a. 1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained. The lime rod, colored as the glede. --Chaucer. The colored rainbow arched wide. --Spenser. 2. Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. --Sir G. C. Lewis. His colored crime with craft to cloke. --Spenser. 3. Of some other color than black or white. 4. (Ethnol.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people. 5. (Bot.) Of some other color than green. Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green. --Gray. Note: In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is. --Wood.

Colored Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Colored?

[n] a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive
[adj] having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples"
[adj] having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"
[adj] (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde"
[adj] favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the defendant"

Colored In Webster's Dictionary

\Col"ored\, a.
1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.

         The lime rod, colored as the glede.   --Chaucer.

         The colored rainbow arched wide.      --Spenser.

2. Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a
   highly colored description. --Sir G. C. Lewis.

         His colored crime with craft to cloke. --Spenser.

3. Of some other color than black or white.

4. (Ethnol.) Of some other color than white; specifically
   applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a
   colored man; the colored people.

5. (Bot.) Of some other color than green.

         Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some
         other color than green.               --Gray.

Note: In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white
      is. --Wood.

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