colored, coloured, negro
(adjective) having skin rich in melanin pigments;
colored, coloured, colorful
(adjective) having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; “colored crepe paper”; “the film was in color”; “amber-colored heads of grain”
bleached, colored, coloured, dyed
(adjective) (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; “a bleached blonde”
biased, colored, coloured, one-sided, slanted
(adjective) favoring one person or side over another; “a biased account of the trial”; “a decision that was partial to the defendant”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
colored (comparative more colored, superlative most colored)
Having a color.
Synonym: Thesaurus:colored
Having a particular color or kind of color.
Having prominent colors; colorful.
Influenced pervasively but subtly.
(US, now, dated and potentially offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
(South Africa) Of neither black nor white skin color.
(chiefly, historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
colored (plural coloreds)
(US, now dated and offensive) A colored person.
(laundry) A colored article of clothing.
colored
simple past tense and past participle of color
• cedorol, croodle, crooled, decolor
Source: Wiktionary
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; aborned 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.)
Definition: Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.
5. (Bot.)
Definition: 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.
Col"or, n. [Written also colour.] Etym: [OF. color, colur, colour, F. couleur, L. color; prob. akin to celare to conceal (the color taken as that which covers). See Helmet.]
1. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.
Note: The sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which rays of light produce different effects according to the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. White, or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which fall upon them.
2. Any hue distinguished from white or black.
3. The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. Give color to my pale cheek. Shak.
4. That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.
5. That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance. They had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. Acts xxvii. 30. That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want a color for his death. Shak.
6. Shade or variety of character; kind; species. Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. Shak.
7. A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey). In the United States each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors, one national and one regimental. Farrow.
8. (Law)
Definition: An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. Blackstone.
Note: Color is express when it is asverred in the pleading, and implied when it is implied in the pleading. Body color. See under Body.
– Color blindness, total or partial inability to distinguish or recognize colors. See Daltonism.
– Complementary color, one of two colors so related to each other that when blended together they produce white light; -- so called because each color makes up to the other what it lacks to make it white. Artificial or pigment colors, when mixed, produce effects differing from those of the primary colors, in consequence of partial absorption.
– Of color (as persons, races, etc.), not of the white race; -- commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed.
– Primary colors, those developed from the solar beam by the prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, -- red, green, and violet-blue. These three are sometimes called fundamental colors.
– Subjective or Accidental color, a false or spurious color seen in some instances, owing to the persistence of the luminous impression upon the retina, and a gradual change of its character, as where a wheel perfectly white, and with a circumference regulary subdiveded, is made to revolve rapidly over a dark object, the teeth, of the wheel appear to the eye of different shades of color varying with the rapidity of rotation. See Accidental colors, under Accidental.
Col"or, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Colored; p. pr. & vb. n. Coloring.] Etym: [F. colorer.]
1. To change or alter the bue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to aint; to stain. 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.
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. He colors the falsehood of Æneas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. Dryden.
3. To hide. [Obs.] That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. Spenser.
Col"or, v. i.
Definition: To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 February 2025
(adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism; “an acrimonious dispute”; “bitter about the divorce”
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