colored
Noun · AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Noun (1)
- a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensiveSynonyms: colored person
Adjective (4)
- having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination“colored crepe paper”“the film was in color”“amber-colored heads of grain”Synonyms: colouredcolorful
- having skin rich in melanin pigments“National Association for the Advancement of Colored People”“dark-skinned peoples”Synonyms: coloureddarkdark-skinnednon-white
- favoring one person or side over another“a biased account of the trial”“a decision that was partial to the defendant”Synonyms: biasedcolouredone-sidedslanted
- (used of color) artificially produced; not natural“a bleached blonde”Synonyms: bleachedcoloureddyed
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain. [1913 Webster]
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.[1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
He colors the falsehood of [AE]neas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
3.To hide. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]
1.Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained. [1913 Webster]
The lime rod, colored as the glede.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]
The colored rainbow arched wide.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]
2.Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. --Sir G. C. Lewis. [1913 Webster]
His colored crime with craft to cloke.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]
3.Of some other color than black or white. [1913 Webster]
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.
Syn: coloured, dark-skinned. [1913 Webster]
5.(Bot.) Of some other color than green. [1913 Webster]
Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green.— Gray.[1913 Webster]
Note: In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is. --Wood. [1913 Webster]