colored – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
colored
n.
member of an ethnic group that is not classed as white (offensive); person who is racially mixed (offensive)
colored (Amer.)
adj.
having color; colorful; painted a certain color; of or belonging to an ethnic group that is not classed as white (offensive); (offensive) racially mixed, coloured
color (Amer.)
v.
add color, tint; distort, falsify (also colour)
Colored
Colored or
coloured is a term used in the
United States during the racial segregation times, especially in the
South, to describe people who do not have
White skin or a
Caucasian appearance (non-white) and also people with mixed racial heritage. This usually meant
black African Americans, although the terms can be applied to members of other non-white
races as well. According to the
Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word colored was first used in the 14th Century, but with a completely different meaning not race or ethnicity.
colored
Noun
1. a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive
(synonym) colored person
(hypernym) Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
Adjective
1. having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"
(synonym) coloured, colorful
(antonym) uncolored, uncoloured
(similar) crimson, red, reddened, red-faced, flushed
(attribute) color, colour, coloring, colouring
2. having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples"
(synonym) coloured, dark, dark-skinned
(similar) black
3. favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the defendant"
(synonym) biased, coloured, one-sided, slanted
(similar) partial, unfair
4. (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde"
(synonym) bleached, coloured, dyed
(similar) artificial, unreal
color
Noun
1. a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
(synonym) colour, coloring, colouring
(antonym) colorlessness, colourlessness, achromatism
(hypernym) visual property
(hyponym) heather mixture, heather
(attribute) colored, coloured, colorful
(derivation) colour, emblazon
2. interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"
(synonym) colour, vividness
(hypernym) interest, interestingness
(attribute) colorful, colourful
3. the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
(synonym) colour, coloration, colouration
(hypernym) timbre, timber, quality, tone
4. a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
(synonym) colour, people of color, people of colour
(hypernym) race
(member-meronym) person of color, person of colour
5. an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color"
(synonym) semblance, gloss, colour
(hypernym) appearance, visual aspect
(hyponym) color of law, colour of law
6. any material used for its color; "she used a different color for the trim"
(synonym) coloring material, colouring material, colour
(hypernym) material, stuff
(hyponym) paint
7. (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors
(synonym) colour
(hypernym) kind, sort, form, variety
(classification) particle physics, high-energy physics, high energy physics
8. the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
(synonym) colour
(hypernym) appearance, visual aspect
Verb
1. add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
(synonym) colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
(antonym) discolor
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(hyponym) blackwash
(derivation) coloration, colouration
2. affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
(synonym) tinge, colour, distort
(hypernym) affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
3. modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"
(synonym) colour
(hypernym) influence, act upon, work
4. decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
(synonym) colour, emblazon
(hypernym) decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
(hyponym) miniate
(derivation) colorist
5. gloss or excuse; "color a lie"
(synonym) colour, gloss
(hypernym) apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
6. change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"
(synonym) discolor, discolour, colour
(hypernym) change
(hyponym) blush, crimson, flush, redden
(derivation) colour, coloring, colouring
Adjective
1. having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
(synonym) colour
(antonym) black-and-white, black and white(p)
(classification) photography, picture taking
Colored
(imp. & p. p.)
of Color
(a.)
Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description.
(a.)
Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.
(a.)
Of some other color than green.
(a.)
Of some other color than black or white.
(a.)
Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
colored
Synonyms and related words:
adorned, affected, antiblack, apocryphal, apparent, artificial, assumed, bastard, befrilled, biased, black, black-skinned, bogus, brummagem, chauvinistic, colorable, counterfeit, counterfeited, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, decorated, deep, deep-colored, distorted, doctrinaire, dogmatic, dressed up, dummy, dyed, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, fancy, feigned, festooned, fictitious, fictive, figurative, figured, florid, flowery, full, full-colored, garbled, gilded, hued, illegitimate, imbued, imitation, in Technicolor, in color, influenced, interested, jaundiced, junky, know-nothing, lush, luxuriant, make-believe, man-made, melanian, melanic, melanistic, melano, melanotic, melanous, meretricious, mock, nonobjective, one-sided, opinionated, ornate, ostensible, overcharged, overloaded, partial, partisan, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, plausible, prejudiced, prepossessed, pretended, pseudo, purple, put-on, quasi, queer, racist, seeming, self-styled, sexist, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, specious, spurious, stained, superpatriotic, supposititious, swayed, synthetic, tendentious, tin, tinct, tinctured, tinged, tinsel, tinted, titivated, toned, twisted, ultranationalist, unauthentic, undetached, undispassionate, ungenuine, unnatural, unneutral, unreal, warped, wash-colored, xenophobic,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
