colored(a = adj.all) colorful, coloured - having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"

Antonym: uncolored

colored(s = adj.all) coloured, dark, dark-skinned, non-white - having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "dark-skinned peoples"

Derived form noun colored₁

colored(s = adj.all) biased, coloured, one-sided, slanted - favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the defendant"
colored(s = adj.all) bleached, coloured, dyed - (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

colored, a.

Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained. [1913 Webster]
"The lime rod, colored as the glede." [1913 Webster]

"The colored rainbow arched wide." [1913 Webster]
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." [1913 Webster]
Of some other color than black or white. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
Of some other color than green. [1913 Webster]
" In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is." Wood. [1913 Webster]

"Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green." [1913 Webster]

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THESAURUS

colored

adorned, affected, antiblack, apocryphal, apparent, artificial, assumed, bastard, befrilled, biased, black, black-skinned, bogus, brummagem, chauvinistic, colorable, counterfeit, counterfeited, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, decorated, deep, deep-colored, distorted, doctrinaire, dogmatic, dressed up, dummy, dyed, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, fancy, feigned, festooned, fictitious, fictive, figurative, figured, florid, flowery, full, full-colored, garbled, gilded, hued, illegitimate, imbued, imitation, in Technicolor, in color, influenced, interested, jaundiced, junky, know-nothing, lush, luxuriant, make-believe, man-made, melanian, melanic, melanistic, melano, melanotic, melanous, meretricious, mock, nonobjective, one-sided, opinionated, ornate, ostensible, overcharged, overloaded, partial, partisan, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, plausible, prejudiced, prepossessed, pretended, pseudo, purple, put-on, quasi, queer, racist, seeming, self-styled, sexist, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, specious, spurious, stained, superpatriotic, supposititious, swayed, synthetic, tendentious, tin, tinct, tinctured, tinged, tinsel, tinted, titivated, toned, twisted, ultranationalist, unauthentic, undetached, undispassionate, ungenuine, unnatural, unneutral, unreal, warped, wash-colored, xenophobic

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ROGET THESAURUS

colored

Color

N color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush, tone, key, pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive complementary color, three primaries, spectrum, chromatic dispersion, broken color, secondary color, tertiary color, local color, coloring, keeping, tone, value, aerial perspective, chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy, chromatism, chromatography, chromatology, prism, spectroscope, spectrograph, spectrometer, colorimeter (optical instruments), pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain, medium, mordant, oil paint, colored, colorific, tingent, tinctorial, chromatic, prismatic, full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored, doubly-dyed, polychromatic, chromatogenous, tingible, bright, vivid, intense, deep, fresh, unfaded, rich, gorgeous, gay, gaudy, florid, gay, garish, rainbow-colored, multihued, showy, flaunting, flashy, raw, crude, glaring, flaring, discordant, inharmonious, mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.

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