colored Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive
    colored person.
  2. verb add color to
    color in; colorise; color; colour; colour in; colourise; colourize; colorize.
    • The child colored the drawings
    • Fall colored the trees
    • colorize black and white film
  3. verb affect as in thought or feeling
    color; colour; tinge; distort.
    • My personal feelings color my judgment in this case
    • The sadness tinged his life
  4. verb modify or bias
    color; colour.
    • His political ideas color his lectures
  5. verb decorate with colors
    color; colour; emblazon.
    • color the walls with paint in warm tones
  6. verb give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
    color; colour; gloss.
    • color a lie
  7. verb change color, often in an undesired manner
    color; discolor; colour; discolour.
    • The shirts discolored
  8. adjective having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination
    colorful; coloured.
    • colored crepe paper
    • the film was in color
    • amber-colored heads of grain
  9. adjective satellite having skin rich in melanin pigments
    dark; dark-skinned; non-white; coloured.
    • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
    • dark-skinned peoples
  10. adjective satellite favoring one person or side over another
    biased; slanted; one-sided; coloured.
    • a biased account of the trial
    • a decision that was partial to the defendant
  11. adjective satellite (used of color) artificially produced; not natural
    dyed; bleached; coloured.
    • a bleached blonde

WordNet

Col"ored adjective
Definitions
  1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
    The lime rod, colored as the glede. Chaucer.
    The colored rainbow arched wide. Spenser.
  2. Specious; plausible; aborned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis.
    His colored crime with craft to cloke. Spenser.
  3. Of some other color than black or white.
  4. (Ethnol.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.
  5. (Bot.) Of some other color than green.
    Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green. Gray.
    ✍ In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is. Wood.

Webster 1913