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Definitions in simple English

colored Verb

— Having a color or kind of color. The wall was colored red, and the floor was colored white. — Having many colors; colorful. The singer wore a colored shirt. — Having skin color other than the white, most often black. In South Africa, many colored people speak , but English is spoken mostly by whites.

colored Noun

— A colored person.

colored

— adjective (= coloured) having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination colored crepe paper the film was in color amber-colored heads of grain — adjective (= coloured, dark, dark-skinned) having skin rich in melanin pigments National Association for the Advancement of Colored People dark-skinned peoples — adjective (= biased) favoring one person or side over another a biased account of the trial a decision that was partial to the defendant — adjective (= bleached, coloured) (used of color) artificially produced; not natural a bleached blonde — noun (= colored person) a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive

Synonyms colored synonyms

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colored English » English

coloured dyed color painted colorful slanted colour red one-sided colored person biased tinted non-white dark-skinned dark bleached yellow variegated toned technicolor swarthy storied stained sable pitchy pigmented person of colour person of color people of colour people of color multicoloured multicolored multicolor hued green colourful chromatic color chromatic blue black beautiful azure

Topics colored topics

What do people use colored to talk about?

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Colors of the spectrum

What are the shades of red?

red beet-red blood-red blush brick-red cardinal carmine carnelian cherry Chinese red claret coral crimson fiery fire-red flame-colored incarnadine lobster lobster-colored madder pink puce roan rose rose-colored roseate rosy rouge ruby-red ruddy scarlet vermilion wine
What are the shades of yellow?

yellow amber banana blond blonde canary chartreuse chrome yellow citron cream flaxen gold golden goldilocks jaundice lemon saffron sallow straw-colored sulfur tawny terra cotta yellow ocher xanthous
What are the shades of purple?

purple violet amethyst crocus hyacinth lavender lilac liver-colored magenta maroon mauve mulberry plum plum-colored royal purple
What are the shades of brown?

brown tan beige flesh colored auburn brunette buff chestnut chocolate cinnamon cocoa coffee dun fawn foxy hazel khaki mahogany ocher russet rust sepia sienna sorrel umber walnut

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Color

What words indicate that something is a particular color?

be red/green be a red/reddish color colored tinted
What words describe something that is a bright color?

bright brightly colored brilliant pure gaudy garish vivid flashy fresh intense strong hot

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Examples colored examples

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Simple sentences

I need colored pencils.

With his colored clothes, his long wig and his white gloves, one could guess he has run away from some kind of Disneyland.

His story is highly colored.

This cat is brown-colored.

She looks at the world through rose-colored glasses.

Tom likes to wear brightly colored orange pants.

Personally, I prefer chocolate eggs over colored chicken eggs.

Tom and Mary colored some eggs for Easter.

Meg colored the picture.

I prefer black- and red-colored clothes.

The fountain is lit with multi-colored lights.

Tom colored the picture.

It's easy to look at the world through rose-colored glasses.

She had on an apricot-colored dress.

She wore an apricot-colored dress.

He has coffee-colored shoes.

Movie subtitles

Rose-colored glasses.

Your jacket's terrible light-colored.

The boys all around the pool halls are spending their money on the numbers instead of dice, and when a colored boy stops crap shooting, that's something.

They're colored to make him look silly.

Hi, colored brother.

Have a drink, colored brother.

You know, purple-colored.

Because it was a colored policeman.

The colored vote's important.

Ready? Mrs. Phoebe DeWolfe, colored, gave birth to a pickaninny in a patrol wagon with Hartwell's rifle squad acting as nurses.

One little lemon-colored fellow with top notes like Caruso.

I sure hope there's some colored folks on that boat.

Here, now, wait a minute! Y'all ain't no colored boy!

You ain't getting fresh with me, is you, colored boy?

I demand that the honour of white people be protected from the encroachments of colored scoundrels.

But a colored boy, he can't do that.

Ma's afraid for a colored boy to have too much ambition.

I've just talked with a colored boy, Parry Clay.

He's a colored boy who works in a law office and does odd jobs.

And he tried to tell him but they don't listen to no colored boy.

They brought the colored folks to the island. the colored folks and Ti-Misery.

I wish you'd get rid of that fantastic colored girl.

You mean he was colored?

He'll argue about it for a moment longer before he lets them in. Now's your time. Your jacket's terrible light-colored.

I was down the road, my valet with me and some colored gentleman. Yes, we remember.

That's probably the colored caretaker Parada told me about.

It happened to be a colored policeman. You know what that means, Hildy.

The colored vote's very important in this town.

News and current affairs

In a world where anti-Semitism and racism fester, where prejudice on national, religious, colored-based, or ethnic grounds foster discrimination, that is the view that best nurtures the rights of all.

In 1933 primatologists discovered a red-and-black colored monkey living in the canopy of West Africa's forests, which they named Miss Waldron's Red Colobus.

But, two centuries after Jefferson, states are no longer merely colored shapes on a map; increasingly, they are transparent and open territories that we view as home to millions of fellow human beings.

Religiously colored political violence will always attract some professionals.

Moreover, many Asian dishes are already colored yellow with saffron, annatto, achiote, and turmeric.

Male birds, for example, often have brightly colored plumage or intricate appendages, such as the Australian lyrebird's long tail.

In my visit last month, the wall was adorned by a large map of Karnataka festooned with colored pins, to indicate that he now served most district capitals in the remotest parts of the state.

But at the very least national identities in Europe are no longer quite so colored by memories of war.

Admittedly, my perspective is heavily colored by events in the world of chess, a game I once played at a professional level and still follow from a distance.

What did the sheets of cloth covered by regularly interspersed colored dots - the products of Hirst's large and mechanized workshops - have to do with artistic innovation or originality?

The current trend toward rose-colored retrospection is a case in point.

Not that national feeling is dying, even as a new European spirit is being born. But at the very least national identities in Europe are no longer quite so colored by memories of war.

A brightly colored orchid enlivens my study, and, through the window, I catch a glimpse of my green garden.

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