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colored
[ kuhl-erd ]
adjective
- having color.
- Older Use: Offensive. belonging wholly or in part to any group of nonwhite people, especially to Black people.
- Older Use: Offensive. pertaining to Black people.
- influenced or biased:
colored opinions.
The authorities detected a colored quality in her statement.
- Botany. of some hue other than green.
noun
- Older Use: Offensive.
- a Black person.
- the colored, Black people as a group.
Sensitive Note
Other Word Forms
- -DZo adjective
- ܲ·DZo adjective
- ܲ·DZo·ly adverb
- ܲ·DZo·ness noun
- ܲd·DZo adjective
- ɱ-DZo adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Murakami is unquestionably adept with a brush, a pen or a computer, creating iconic art that features manga, anime, cartoons and brightly colored anthropomorphic cherry blossoms, mushrooms and assorted flowers.
The five brightly colored characters helped the crowd to get its “wiggles” out and sang the hit “Party in My Tummy.”
Sunflower sea stars — vividly colored creatures with up to 24 arms, and which can weigh as much as a small dog — once thrived along the Pacific Coast between Alaska and Baja California.
"We are not going to look at these numbers with rose colored glasses... they were a disaster on every metric," Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a note on Wednesday.
In the Dodgers’ newly renovated home clubhouse, the team’s typical home white jerseys were replaced with ceremonial championship threads; with names, numbers and the iconic ‘Dodgers’ script across the chest all colored in gold.
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How Do You Spell Colored?
Spelling tips for colored
The word colored is hard to spell for three reasons. First, it can be tempting to use a double l or double r. Second, in British English, the word is spelled with a u (colored), unlike in American English. Finally, the ending -ed is pronounced simply [ d ], so one may forget the e.
How to spell colored: When it comes to color, keep it simple. You don’t need any extra letters, like a double l, double r, or u. For adjectives like colored that end with the sound [ d ], remember that you will always need a little Extra (e) to get it Done, -ed.
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