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Definitions for: 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"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
Synonyms: 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
Antonyms: uncolored, uncoloured
See Also: Black, black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
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