colored

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having a color.

   • Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.
2. 2

   Having a particular color or kind of color.

   • The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.
   • Nara and its deer are so closely associated that the light-brown colored animals are pictured in the city’s tourism ads, on buses, train tickets and more.
3. 3

   Having prominent colors

   Having prominent colors; colorful.

   • The singer wore a colored shirt.
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   1. 4

      Biased

      Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.

      • Mr. Brewer gave me his version of the history of the Conference of Studio Unions. It appeared to me then and appears to me now to have been a very colored view.
      • But by and large, a majority of Sanduskians never read any newspaper other than the local journal and I am convinced that they get a far more colored view of national news than they did when the city had competing dailies.
      • The organization's traditions and culture are inwardly focused. It is not conceivable that an alternative solution could exist. This results in a very colored view of the marketplace.
   2. 5

      Of skin color other than white

      Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.

      • […] a beautiful silk standard donated to the Third Battalion by the colored ladies of the city of New York, was formally presented to the battalion.
      • He made a smart remark about colored people and I got mad. I got mad because I like colored people. In fact, a colored lady raised me. Some of my best friends are colored people.
      • To find a job is like a haystack needle / Because where he lives they don't use colored people
   3. 6

      Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one…

      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.)

      • Most of the colored community speaks Afrikaans, whereas languages like Xhosa or Venda are typically spoken by blacks and English is spoken mostly by whites.
      • By the end of the 19th century District Six had become a bustling and heavily populated working class neighborhood whose population was predominantly coloured, Cape Malay and African intermixed with Indian, Chinese, and European migrants.
      • By 1929, many of the Coloured radicals who had been excluded from the ICU had found a temporary home in the Western Cape branch of the African National Congress (ANC).
   4. 7

      Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).

      • a colored drinking fountain
      • a colored hospital
      • New Orleans is a very dull town. It’s against the law to go to the colored section. The bars are insufferably dreary.
   5. 8

      A colored article of clothing.

   6. 9

      A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa…

      A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.

   7. 10

      A colored (nonwhite) person.

   8. 11

      simple past and past participle of color

   9. 12

      Alternative letter-case form of colored (“non-white, or mixed race”).

The neighborhood

• synonymcolored
• synonymhued
• antonymachromatic
• antonymcolorless
• neighborcolorism
• neighborperson of color
• neighborcolorful
• neighbordiscolored
• neighbormonochromatic
• neighbormulticolored
• neighbortinted
• neighborblack
• neighborblue
• neighborbrown
• neighborgray
• neighborgreen