colored
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English color
English -ed
English colored
From color + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more colored
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most colored
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: coloured
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
form: Colored
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
form: Coloured
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
form: coloreds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coloured
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: Colored
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: Coloured
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Having a color.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.
gloss: Having a particular color or kind of color.
pos: adj
tags: US
in-compounds
examples: The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.
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.
gloss: Having prominent colors; colorful.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: The singer wore a colored shirt.
gloss: Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: 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.
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.
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.
gloss: Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
pos: adj
tags: US
dated
offensive
usually
examples: […] 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.
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.
To find a job is like a haystack needle / Because where he lives they don't use colored people
gloss: 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.)
pos: adj
tags: Botswana
Namibia
South-Africa
US
Zimbabwe
capitalized
sometimes
examples: 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.
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.
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).
gloss: Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
pos: adj
tags: US
historical
examples: a colored drinking fountain
a colored hospital
New Orleans is a very dull town. It’s against the law to go to the colored section. The bars are insufferably dreary.
gloss: A colored article of clothing.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
US
gloss: A colored (nonwhite) person.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
offensive
examples: When a white fellow gets in the ring with an eight ball the eight ball's got no chance. You see, 'cause they call boxing the sweet science. And that's where your colored just runs into trouble. That's just that science part. / Yeah, but Joe Louis is a big 'un.
Synonyms: colored
hued
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
decolored
decoloured
discolored
discoloured
dust-colored
fawncolored
fawncoloured
flesh-colored
honey-colored
honey-coloured
knife-colored
knife-coloured
leadcolored
leadcoloured
lead-colored
lead-coloured
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
overcolored
overcoloured
particoloured
party-colored
party-coloured
pentacolored
pentacoloured
plum-colored
plum-coloured
pseudocolored
pseudocoloured
quadricolored
quadricoloured
rainbow-colored
R-colored
R-coloured
R-colored vowel
rose-colored glasses
rose-colored
rose-coloured
rose-colored starling
rust-colored
rust-coloured
salmon-colored
salmon-coloured
self-colored
self-coloured
skin-colored
skin-coloured
smoke-colored pewee
straw-colored
straw-coloured
sulfur-colored
sulphur-coloured
suncolored
suncoloured
technicolored
technicoloured
tetracolored
toffee-colored
tow-colored
tow-coloured
tricolored
twi-colored
uncolored
uncoloured
undercolored
undercoloured
unicolored
unicoloured
varicolored
varicoloured
versicolored
versicoloured
watercolored
watercoloured
wine-colored
wine-coloured
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: farvet
lang: Finnish
word: värillinen
lang: French
word: métis
lang: German
word: farbig
lang: Russian
word: цветно́й
roman: cvetnój