'Colored' definitions:
Definition of 'colored'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain" [syn: colored, coloured, colorful] [ant: uncolored, uncoloured]
adjective
Having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "dark-skinned peoples" [syn: colored, coloured, dark, dark-skinned, non-white]
adjective
Favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the defendant" [syn: biased, colored, coloured, one-sided, slanted]
adjective
(used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde" [syn: bleached, colored, coloured, dyed]
noun
A United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive [syn: colored person, colored]
Definition of 'Colored'
From: GCIDE
- Color \Col"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Colored; p. pr. & vb. n. Coloring.] [F. colorer.]
- 1. To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain. [1913 Webster]
- The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices. [1913 Webster]
- He colors the falsehood of [AE]neas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To hide. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'colored'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Colored'
- Color,
- Colorable,
- Colorableness,
- Colorably,
- Colorate,
- Coloration,
- Coloring,
- Of color,
- color in,
- colorful,
- colorize,
- colors,
- off color,
- Accidental color,
- Body color,
- Color blindness,
- Color sergeant,
- Complementary color,
- Complementary colors,
- Cyanic colors,
- Damask color,
- Dead color,
- Dead coloring,
- Express color,
- Field colors,
- Flame color,
- Flying colors,
- Fundamental colors,
- Grain colors,
- Indelible colors,
- Isabel color,
- Isabella color,
- Lead color,
- Lenten color,
- Liver color,
- Local color,
- Peach color,
- Play of colors,
- Primary colors,
- Primitive colors,
- Prismatic colors,
- Protective coloring,
- Rose color,
- Saturated color,
- Secondary color,
- Solid color,
- Stand of colors,
- Steam colors,
- Subjective color,
- Substantive color,
- Tempering color,
- Tertiary color,
- To dip the colors,
- To troop the colors,
- Tone color,
- Water color,
- Xanthic colors,
- achromatic color,
- apatetic coloration,
- aposematic coloration,
- basic color,
- change of color,
- chromatic color,
- cinnamon colored,
- color bar,
- color bearer,
- color blind,
- color chart,
- color circle,
- color code,
- color constancy,
- color force,
- color guard,
- color line,
- color of law,
- color photography,
- color property,
- color scheme,
- color spectrum,
- color television,
- color tube,
- color tv,
- color vision,
- color wash,
- color wheel,
- colored audition,
- colored hearing,
- colored person,
- coloring book,
- coloring material,
- copper color,
- copper colored,
- cryptic coloration,
- dithered color,
- earth color,
- earth colors,
- food color,
- food coloring,
- hair coloring,
- mouse colored,
- nonsolid color,
- off-color,
- oil color,
- parti color,
- people of color,
- person of color,
- poster color,
- primary color,
- protective coloration,
- ring of color,
- rose colored,
- skin color,
- spectral color,
- vat color,
- warning coloration,
- Color-blind,
- Cream-colored,
- Fawn-colored,
- Flame-colored,
- High-colored,
- Judas-colored,
- Lark-colored,
- Liver-colored,
- Parti-colored,
- Party-colored,
- Peach-colored,
- Rose-colored,
- Self-color,
- Self-colored,
- Slate-color,
- Straw-colored,
- Three-color,
- To come off with flying colors,
- Trout-colored,
- blush-colored,
- brightly-colored,
- buff-colored,
- chestnut-colored,
- chocolate-colored,
- cinnamon-colored,
- color television system,
- color television tube,
- color tv tube,
- color vision deficiency,
- creamy-colored,
- dark-colored,
- dun-colored,
- dusky-colored,
- earth-colored,
- flesh-colored,
- garnet-colored,
- gold-colored,
- honey-colored,
- lead-colored,
- light-colored,
- lilac-colored,
- metal-colored,
- metallic-colored,
- mouse-colored,
- multi-color,
- multi-colored,
- neutral-colored,
- olive-colored,
- orange-colored,
- pale-colored,
- parti-color,
- pass with flying colors,
- pastel-colored,
- peachy-colored,
- primary color for light,
- primary color for pigments,
- rosy-colored,
- rust-colored,
- silver-colored,
- snuff-color,
- solid-colored,
- tawny-colored,
- violet-colored,
- water-color,
- wine-colored,
- Rose-colored starling,
- clay-colored robin,
- color-blind person,
- cream-colored courser,
- earth-colored earthlike,
- honey honey-colored,
- mousy mouse-colored,
- primary subtractive color for light,
- rose-colored pastor,
- slate-colored junco,
- straw-color straw-colored straw-coloured,
- blushful blush-colored rosy,
- field-sequential color television,
- field-sequential color tv,
- red-green color blindness,
- rust rusty rust-colored,
- yellow-blue color blindness,
- field-sequential color television system,
- field-sequential color tv system,
- snuff snuff-brown snuff-color snuff-colour snuff-colored snuff-coloured mummy-brown chukker-brown