colored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ʹkŭlərd
ipa: /ˈkʌləɹd/
rhymes: -ʌləɹd
Forms: form: more colored
form: most colored
form: coloured
form: Colored
form: Coloured
Etymology: From color + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.
glosses: Having a color.
examples: text: The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.
text: 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.
ref: 2024 July 23, Lilit Marcus, “Japan may be sick of mass tourism. But the deer in this ancient UNESCO-listed city love it”, in CNN:
glosses: Having a particular color or kind of color.
examples: text: The singer wore a colored shirt.
glosses: Having prominent colors; colorful.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1948, 80th United States Congress, Jurisdictional Disputes in the Motion-Picture Industry, volume 3, Washington: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 1966:
text: 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.
ref: 1949 January, Glenn D. Everett, “Putting the President On the Market Page”, in Nieman Reports, volume 3, number 1, Cambridge: Society of Nieman Fellows, →ISSN, page 26:
text: 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.
ref: 2001, Bernard H. Boar, The Art of Strategic Planning for Information Technology, 2nd edition, New York: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
examples: text: […] 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.
ref: 1898, William H. Chenery, The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (colored) in the War to Preserve the Union, 1861-1865, page 38:
text: He made a smart remark about colored people and I got mad. I got mad because I like colored people. In fact, a colored lady raised me. Some of my best friends are colored people.
ref: 1967, “Cowboys & Colored People”performed by Flip Wilson:
text: To find a job is like a haystack needle / Because where he lives they don't use colored people
ref: 1973, Stevie Wonder, “Living for the City”, in Innervisions:
glosses: Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
examples: text: Most of the colored community speaks Afrikaans, whereas languages like Xhosa or Venda are typically spoken by blacks and English is spoken mostly by whites.
text: By the end of the 19th century District Six had become a bustling and heavily populated working class neighborhood whose population was predominantly coloured, Cape Malay and African intermixed with Indian, Chinese, and European migrants.
ref: 2011, John Bradley, Liz Bradley, Jon Vidar, Victoria Fine, Cape Town: Winelands & the Garden Route, Modern Overland, →ISBN, page 72:
text: By 1929, many of the Coloured radicals who had been excluded from the ICU had found a temporary home in the Western Cape branch of the African National Congress (ANC).
ref: 2014, Shula Marks, Stanley Trapido, editors, The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Africa, Routledge, →ISBN:
synonyms: Eurafrican
glosses: 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.)
examples: text: a colored drinking fountain
text: a colored hospital
text: New Orleans is a very dull town. It’s against the law to go to the colored section. The bars are insufferably dreary.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
Synonyms: word: colored
word: hued
Hyponyms: word: colorful
word: discolored
word: monochromatic
word: multicolored
word: tinted
word: black
word: blue
word: brown
word: gray
word: green
word: orange
word: purple
word: red
word: white
word: yellow
Coordinate terms: Asian
black
Black
white
White
Derived terms: english: anticoloured, anti-colored, anti-coloured
translation: anticoloured, anti-colored, anti-coloured
word: anticolored
alt: ash-coloured, ashcolored, ashcoloured
word: ash-colored
word: aurora-colored
word: aurora-coloured
word: bicolored
word: bicoloured
word: brickcolored
word: brickcoloured
word: cherrycolored
word: cherrycoloured
word: clay-colored
word: clay-coloured
word: clay-colored thrush
word: colored egg
word: coloured egg
word: colored pencil
word: coloured pencil
word: colored revolution
word: coloured revolution
word: countercolored
word: countercoloured
word: cream-colored courser
word: cream-colored
word: cream-coloured
word: dark-colored
word: decolored
word: decoloured
word: discolored
word: discoloured
alt: dust-coloured, dustcolored, dustcoloured
word: dust-colored
word: fawncolored
word: fawncoloured
alt: flesh-coloured, fleshcolored, fleshcoloured
word: flesh-colored
word: honey-colored
word: honey-coloured
word: knife-colored
word: knife-coloured
word: lead-colored
word: lead-coloured
word: leadcolored
word: leadcoloured
word: light-colored
word: many-colored
word: many-coloured
word: miscolored
word: miscoloured
word: monocolored
word: monocoloured
word: mouse-colored antshrike
word: mouse-colored
word: mouse-coloured
alt: multicoloured, multi-colored, multi-coloured
word: multicolored
word: natural-colored
word: natural-coloured
word: neon-colored
word: neon-coloured
word: noncolored
word: noncoloured
word: off-colored
word: off-coloured
word: overcolored
word: overcoloured
alt: particolored, parti-colored, parti-coloured
word: particoloured
word: party-colored
word: party-coloured
word: pentacolored
word: pentacoloured
word: plum-colored
word: plum-coloured
word: pseudocolored
word: pseudocoloured
word: quadricolored
word: quadricoloured
english: rainbow-coloured, rainbow colored, rainbow coloured
translation: rainbow-coloured, rainbow colored, rainbow coloured
word: rainbow-colored
word: R-colored
english: R-coloured vowel
translation: R-coloured vowel
word: R-coloured
word: R-colored vowel
english: rose-colored lenses, rose-coloured spectacles
translation: rose-colored lenses, rose-coloured spectacles
word: rose-colored glasses
word: rose-colored
word: rose-coloured
english: rose-colored pastor
translation: rose-colored pastor
word: rose-colored starling
word: rust-colored
word: rust-coloured
word: salmon-colored
word: salmon-coloured
word: self-colored
word: self-coloured
word: skin-colored
word: skin-coloured
word: smoke-colored pewee
word: straw-colored
word: straw-coloured
word: sulfur-colored
word: sulphur-coloured
word: suncolored
word: suncoloured
word: technicolored
word: technicoloured
alt: tetracoloured, tetra-colored, tetra-coloured
word: tetracolored
word: toffee-colored
word: tow-colored
word: tow-coloured
alt: tricoloured, tri-colored, tri-coloured
word: tricolored
word: twi-colored
word: uncolored
word: uncoloured
word: undercolored
word: undercoloured
word: unicolored
word: unicoloured
word: varicolored
word: varicoloured
word: versicolored
word: versicoloured
word: watercolored
word: watercoloured
word: wine-colored
word: wine-coloured
Related terms: colorism
person of color