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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.
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; having a skin color darker than that of caucasian people; mostly applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people. Opposite of white and caucasian.
5.(Bot.) Of some other color than green.
Noun1.colored - a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive
Synonyms: colored person
Adj.1.colored - having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"
Synonyms: coloured, colorful
Antonyms:
uncolored, uncoloured - without color; "pure water is uncolored"
2.colored - having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples"
3.colored - favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the defendant"
4.colored - (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde"
Synonyms: dyed, bleached, coloured
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