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Colored   /kˈələrd/   Listen
Colored

adjective
1.
Having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination.  Synonyms: colorful, coloured.  "The film was in color" , "Amber-colored heads of grain"  Antonym: uncolored.
2.
Having skin rich in melanin pigments.  Synonyms: coloured, dark, dark-skinned, non-white.  "Dark-skinned peoples"
3.
Favoring one person or side over another.  Synonyms: biased, coloured, one-sided, slanted.  "A decision that was partial to the defendant"
4.
(used of color) artificially produced; not natural.  Synonyms: bleached, coloured, dyed.
noun
1.
A United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive.  Synonym: colored person.



Color

verb
(past & past part. colored; pres. part. coloring)
1.
Add color to.  Synonyms: color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize.  "Fall colored the trees" , "Colorize black and white film"  Antonym: discolor.
2.
Affect as in thought or feeling.  Synonyms: colour, distort, tinge.  "The sadness tinged his life"
3.
Modify or bias.  Synonym: colour.
4.
Decorate with colors.  Synonyms: colour, emblazon.
5.
Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for.  Synonyms: colour, gloss.
6.
Change color, often in an undesired manner.  Synonyms: colour, discolor, discolour.



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"Colored" Quotes from Famous Books



... "I'll see that you keep it." He looked over his shoulder. The stage was filled with gayly-colored dresses. The mutineers had returned to duty. "Well, I'll be getting along. I'm rather sorry we agreed to keep clear of personalities, because I should have liked to say that, if ever they have a skunk-show at Madison Square Garden, you ought to enter—and win the blue ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse

... gathered the best petals, and leaves, and sprigs, and I have them in a book;" which, at her request, I then reached for her. I turned the pages. The book was full of beautiful relics from tokens of remembrance which kind friends had sent to her, and among them were some curiously mottled, green and rose-colored, petals, which she had designed for a wreath, on the first page of the little herbarium, which it was her intention to prepare; and then, with great hesitancy, and protesting their unworthiness, she repeated these simple lines, which she had composed ...
— Catharine • Nehemiah Adams

... in the arteries, before it returns to the heart through the veins, is one of the mysteries of animal life. It has been tried to be analyzed to know of what it is composed, and when done, we know but little more of what it really is, than we know what sulphur is made of. We know it is a colored fluid, and it is in all parts of the flesh and bone. We know it builds up heaps of flesh, but how, is the question that leads us to honor the unknowable law of life, by which it does the work of its mysterious construction ...
— Philosophy of Osteopathy • Andrew T. Still

... return, I had a more violent attack than either of the preceding—again on the left side. I felt as if a line were drawn perpendicularly through my body, dividing it in halves. My stools were clay-colored. With this attack for the first time I became unconscious, and passed into a delirious state. So far as I know, no diagnosis of my condition was made. I was confined to bed for a month, at the end ...
— The Electric Bath • George M. Schweig

... said the captain, complacently rubbing together his fat hands and smoothing his colored whiskers—"Bring her in here, and I'll coax her in ...
— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes


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