Colored

colored
    adj 1: having color or a certain color; sometimes used in
           combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in
           color"; "amber-colored heads of grain" [syn: {colored},
           {coloured}, {colorful}] [ant: {uncolored}, {uncoloured}]
    2: having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association
       for the Advancement of Colored People"; "dark-skinned
       peoples" [syn: {colored}, {coloured}, {dark}, {dark-skinned},
       {non-white}]
    3: favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account
       of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the defendant"
       [syn: {biased}, {colored}, {coloured}, {one-sided},
       {slanted}]
    4: (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a
       bleached blonde" [syn: {bleached}, {colored}, {coloured},
       {dyed}]
    n 1: a United States term for Blacks that is now considered
         offensive [syn: {colored person}, {colored}]
    

Color \Col"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Colored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Coloring}.] [F. colorer.]
   1. To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing,
      staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to
      stain.
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            The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in
            them there is nothing else than a certain power and
            disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that
            color.                                --Sir I.
                                                  Newton.
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   2. To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a
      false appearance to; usually, to give a specious
      appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make
      plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were
      colored by his prejudices.
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            He colors the falsehood of [AE]neas by an express
            command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. --Dryden.
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   3. To hide. [Obs.]
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            That by his fellowship he color might
            Both his estate and love from skill of any wight.
                                                  --Spenser.
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Colored \Col"ored\, a.
   1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
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            The lime rod, colored as the glede.   --Chaucer.
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            The colored rainbow arched wide.      --Spenser.
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   2. Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a
      highly colored description. --Sir G. C. Lewis.
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            His colored crime with craft to cloke. --Spenser.
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   3. Of some other color than black or white.
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   4. (Ethnol.) 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; as, a colored
      man; the colored people. Opposite of {white} and
      {caucasian}.

   Syn: coloured, dark-skinned.
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   5. (Bot.) Of some other color than green.
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            Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some
            other color than green.               --Gray.
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   Note: In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white
         is. --Wood.
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130 Moby Thesaurus words for "colored":
      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