About The Word Colored

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Colored

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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.
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