colored

/ˈkʌləɹd/
adjectivenoun

Having a color.

NWL Collins ENABLE

Adjective 4 meanings

  1. Having a color.

    “Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.”

  2. Having a particular color or kind of color.

    “The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.”

  3. Having prominent colors; colorful.

    “The singer wore a colored shirt.”

  4. Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.

Noun 2 meanings

  1. A colored article of clothing.

  2. A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.

Definitions: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA) via Kaikki/Wiktextract

Where it comes from

Etymology

From color + -ed.

Similar and opposite words

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hued
Opposite
achromaticcolorless

COLORED at a glance

COLORED has 7 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + L 1 + O 1 + R 1 + E 1 + D 2) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,111 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.

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