Meaning of coloured in English
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colouredDefinitions
1. favoring one person or side over anotherExamples
- « a biased account of the trial »
- « a decision that was partial to the defendant »
Synonyms
- 2. (used of color) artificially produced
Examples
- « not natural »
- « a bleached blonde »
Synonyms
- 3. having skin rich in melanin pigments
Examples
- « National Association for the Advancement of Colored People »
- « the dark races »
- « dark-skinned peoples »
Synonyms
Qualitative Adjective
colouredDefinitions
1. having color or a certain colorExamples
- « sometimes used in combination »
- « colored crepe paper »
- « the film was in color »
- « amber-colored heads of grain »
Synonyms
- crimson
- red
- reddened
- red-faced
- flushed
- bay
- bicolor
- bicolour
- bicolored
- bicoloured
- bichrome
- dichromatic
- black
- blackened
- ginger
- gingery
- monochromatic
- monochrome
- monochromic
- monochromous
- motley
- calico
- multicolor
- multicolour
- multicolored
- multicoloured
- painted
- particolored
- particoloured
- piebald
- pied
- varicolored
- varicoloured
- polychromatic
- polychrome
- polychromic
- roan
- touched
- tinged
- trichromatic
- trichrome
- tricolor
Antonyms
Famous quotes
- « Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations. » Jarvis Cocker
- « Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. » Paul Cezanne