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adj. Having color: colored tissue paper.

adj. Often Offensive Of or belonging to a racial group not categorized as white.

adj. Often Offensive Black or African-American.

adj. Often Offensive Of mixed racial descent.

adj. South African Of or belonging to a population grouping made up of persons of mixed racial descent or of certain other nonwhite descent, especially as distinguished during apartheid from Blacks, Asians, or whites.

adj. Distorted or biased, as by irrelevant or incorrect information.

n. Offensive A person belonging to a racial group not categorized as white.

n. Offensive A Black person; an African American.

n. Offensive A person of mixed racial descent.

n. South African A person belonging to the Coloured population grouping, especially during apartheid.

adj. Having a particular color or kind of color.

adj. Having prominent colors; colorful.

adj. Influenced pervasively but subtly.

adj. Of skin color other than the white, particularly black.

adj. Of neither black nor white skin color.

n. A colored person.

n. A colored article of clothing.

v. Simple past tense and past participle of color.

adj. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.

adj. Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well.

adj. Of some other color than black or white.

adj. Of some other color than white; having a skin color darker than that of caucasian people; mostly applied to negroes or persons having negro blood. Opposite of white and caucasian.

adj. Of some other color than green.

Having a color; dyed; tinged; painted or stained.

Having a distinguishing hue.

In botany, of any hue but green: as, a colored leaf.

Having a dark or black color of the skin; black or mulatto; specifically, in the United States, belonging wholly or partly to the African race; having or partaking of the color of the negro. In census-tables, etc., the term is often used to include Indians, Chinese, etc.

Hence— Of or pertaining to the negroes, or to persons partly of negro origin: as, the colored vote.

Having a specious appearance; deceptive: as, a colored statement.—Colored glass. See glass.

adj. having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination

adj. having skin rich in melanin pigments

n. a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive

adj. (used of color) artificially produced; not natural

adj. favoring one person or side over another

"I said somewhere in the early part of this narrative that because the colored man looked at everything through the prism of his relationship to society as a _colored_ man, and because most of his mental efforts ran through the narrow channel bounded by his rights and his wrongs, it was to be wondered at that he has progressed so broadly as he has."

calico    varicoloured    parti-colored    liver-colored    polychromatic    multicolor    pale-colored    gold-coloured    bicolour    honey-coloured   

Negro    black person    black    Negroid    blackamoor   

colored light   

tinged    dyed    painted    stained    specious    plausible    black    red    brown    Negro   

coloured    discolored    multicolored   

bright    yellow    scarlet    colorful    transparent