colored

Pluralcoloreds

1. 1
   added hueverb

   Simple past tense and past participle of color. Use this form for coloring that already happened.

   She colored the picture with bright crayons.

   The eggs were colored for the spring festival.

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2. 2
   adjective

   Having one certain color or kind of color.

   The shop sells differently colored versions of the same jacket.

   Children sorted the variously colored blocks into matching piles.

   Similarhued, tinted, shaded

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3. 3
   adjective

   Having some color rather than being clear or plain.

   Colored glass tiles brightened the dull hallway.

   These pencils are colored, unlike the plain gray ones.

   Similartinted, stained, dyed

   Oppositecolorless, clear, transparent

4. 4
   brightadjective

   Full of bright, strong colors.

   The kids' bedroom is very colored, with red, yellow, and blue walls.

   That shirt is a little too colored for a job interview.

   Similarcolorful, bright, vivid, painted

   Oppositedrab, dull, colorless

5. 5
   biasedadjective

   Changed by a strong opinion or feeling, so it is not fully fair or true.

   Like sunglasses that change how everything looks to you.

   His report was colored by personal resentment toward the manager.

   Her advice always felt colored by old grudges she never let go.

   Similarinfluenced, biased, slanted, distorted, prejudiced

   Oppositeimpartial, objective, unbiased

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6. 6
   laundrynouncountable

   A piece of clothing that has color, washed apart from white things.

   A new red colored turned all my socks pink in the wash.

   Always wash your coloreds in cold water.

   Oppositewhite

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7. 7
   mixed raceadjectivedialectalBotswanaNamibiaSouth AfricaZimbabwe

   Belonging to a mixed-race group in Southern Africa with black, white, and Asian ancestry.

   She grew up in a colored community in Cape Town.

   Many colored families were forced to move under apartheid laws.

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   mixed-race personnounSouth Africacountable

   A person of mixed race in Southern Africa with black, white, and Asian ancestry.

   As a colored, her grandmother was classified separately under apartheid.

   Many coloreds settled in the Western Cape region.

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   segregatedadjectivehistorical

   Set aside in the past for use only by nonwhite people, as under segregation in the US or apartheid in South Africa.

   They were sent to the colored entrance at the back of the building.

   New Orleans is a very dull town. It’s against the law to go to the colored section. The bars are insufferably dreary.

   1957, Jack Kerouac, On the RoadHere, colored means set aside for nonwhite people under segregation.

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