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colored¹
- /ˈkʌləd/ UK
- /ˈkʌləɹd/ Canada, US
- /ˈkɐləd/ Australia, New Zealand
Rhymes with -ʌləɹd
adjective more colored · most colored · coloured · Colored · Coloured
- Having a color. Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.
- Having a particular color or kind of color. The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.
- Having prominent colors; colorful. The singer wore a colored shirt.
- 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.
- 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.
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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.
Similar: Eurafrican
- Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense). a colored drinking fountain
Similar: colored, hued · Opposite: achromatic, colorless
noun coloreds · coloured · Colored · Coloured
- A colored article of clothing.
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A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.
Similar: Eurafrican
- A colored (nonwhite) person. When a white fellow gets in the ring with an eight ball the eight ball's got no chance. You see, 'cause they call boxing the sweet science. And that's where your colored just runs into trouble. That's just that science part. / Yeah, but Joe Louis is a big 'un.
verb coloured · Colored · Coloured
- simple past and past participle of color
Colored²
adjective
- Alternative letter-case form of colored (“non-white, or mixed race”).
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: colorful, particolored, multicolored, varicoloured, multicolor, particoloured, coloured, multicoloured, polychromatic, hued, pied, bicolored, bicolor, bicolour, bicoloured, polychrome
adjective
Similar: colored, hued · Opposite: achromatic, colorless
Translations
Every language
adj South Africa: of neither black nor white skin color
| Français | métis |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | farbig |
| Русский | цветно́й cvetnój |
adj having a color
| Português | colorido |
|---|---|
| Ελληνικά | έγχρωμος énchromos, χρωματισμένος chromatisménos, χρωματιστός chromatistós |
| Română | colorat, colorată |
| Русский | цветно́й cvetnój |
| العربية | مُلَوَّن mulawwan |
| עברית | צָבוּעַ tzavúa' |
adj having a particular kind of color
| 한국어 | 유색 yusaek |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 有色 yūshoku |
| 中文 | 有色 yǒusè |
| Português | colorido/pintado de |
| Français | coloré, de couleur |
| Deutsch | farbig |
| Română | colorat |
| Русский | цветно́й cvetnój |
adj colorful
| Português | colorido |
|---|---|
| Français | coloré, de couleur, en couleur |
| Deutsch | farbig, bunt |
| Ελληνικά | χρωματιστός chromatistós |
| Română | plin de culoare, viu colorat |
| Русский | цветно́й cvetnój, разноцве́тный raznocvétnyj |
adj US: of skin color other than the white, particularly black
| Español | de color |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 有色 yǒusè |
| Português | de cor |
| Français | de couleur |
| Deutsch | farbig |
| Română | de culoare |
| Русский | цветно́й cvetnój |
| Tiếng Việt | da màu |
noun colored article of clothing
| Français | couleurs |
|---|
noun colored person
| 한국어 | 유색인종 yusaeginjong |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 有色人種 yūshokujinshu |
| 中文 | 有色人種 /有色人种 yǒusè rénzhǒng |
| Français | personne de couleur |
| Deutsch | Farbiger, Farbige |
| Русский | цветно́й cvetnój, цветна́я cvetnája |
Talk about this word "colored." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/colored. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. colored. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/colored "colored." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/colored.Cite this
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title = {colored},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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