colored

Meanings

Plural: coloreds

Noun

• a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive
• A colored article of clothing.
• A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.
• A colored (nonwhite) person.

Verb

• add color to
  • "The child colored the drawings"
  • "Fall colored the trees"
• affect as in thought or feeling
• modify or bias
• decorate with colors
• give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
• change color, often in an undesired manner
  • "The shirts discolored"
• simple past and past participle of color

Adjective

• having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination
  • "colored crepe paper"
  • "amber-colored heads of grain"

Adjective Satellite

• having skin rich in melanin pigments
  • "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"
• favoring one person or side over another
• (used of color) artificially produced; not natural

Adj

• Having a color.
• Having a particular color or kind of color.
• Having prominent colors; colorful.
• Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
• Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
• 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.)
• Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).

Synonyms

biased, bleached, color, color in, colored, colored person, colorful, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, coloured, colourise, colourize, dark, dark-skinned, discolor, discolour, distort, dyed, emblazon, Eurafrican, gloss, hued, non-white, one-sided, slanted, tinge

Antonyms

achromatic, colorless, discolor, uncolored

Related Words

colorism, person of color

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