Colored

Word COLORED
Character 7
Hyphenation col ored
Pronunciations /ˈkʌləɹd/

Definitions and meanings of "Colored"

What do we mean by colored?

Having color. adjective

Of or belonging to a racial group not categorized as white. adjective

Black or African-American. adjective

Of mixed racial descent. adjective

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. adjective

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

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

A black person, especially an African American. noun

A person of mixed racial descent. noun

A person belonging to the Coloured population grouping, especially during apartheid. noun

Pieces of laundry that are not light in color. noun

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.

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

To give something color.

To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.

(of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.

To affect without completely changing.

To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).

To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Colored

The word "colored" in example sentences

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. ❋ James Weldon Johnson (1904)

˜colored™ because it is impossible for something to be red and not colored. ❋ Sanford, David H. (2006)

According to journalist Clifton Johnson in 1904, the word was used to refer to blacks in the South and was chosen primarily for it's derogatory value, being considered more offensive than the term "colored," another term commonly used to refer to people of African descent at the time. ❋ Hayley Rose Horzepa (2011)

In some parts of Africa, the word colored is applied to those of mixed white and black ancestry. ❋ PAUL R. MARTIN (2002)

It's an absurd reaction to the phrase 'colored people' but is, in effect, the same thing. ❋ Glenn Llopis (2011)

Additionally, what he failed to consider is that this country has made the term "colored" inappropriate because of the social and cultural context with which it was used. ❋ Brandy Williams (2011)

It is inconceivable to me how a person can add syllables to the word "colored," yet Howard found a way. ❋ Rodney Barnes (2012)

So, Angela couldn’t think of a tactful way to tell a woman who’d known her since she was a thieving child that the term colored was woefully outmoded. ❋ Tananarive Due (2003)

And, as I never tire of pointing out, it has a title card done in colored pencil. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I also like the pumpkin colored mud dog lizard, or I place a small weight in front of a Rebel Popper. ❋ Unknown (2009)

According to the manual, The Colored Girl Beautiful was compiled from talks given to girls in colored boarding schools across the United States. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The work is often in colored pencil in aquamarine, yellow and other hues. ❋ Ellen Gamerman (2010)

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