COLOURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coloured mean? 

• COLOURED (adjective)
  The adjective COLOURED has 4 senses:

1. having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination

2. favoring one person or side over another

3. (used of color) artificially produced; not natural

4. having skin rich in melanin pigments

  Familiarity information: COLOURED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLOURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination

Synonyms:

colored; colorful; coloured

Context example:

amber-colored heads of grain

Similar:

liver; liver-colored (having a reddish-brown color)

violet-purple (light violet and dark purple)

metal-colored; metal-coloured; metallic-colored; metallic-coloured (having a metallic color)

monochromatic; monochrome; monochromic; monochromous (having or appearing to have only one color)

calico; motley; multi-color; multi-colored; multi-colour; multi-coloured; multicolor; multicolored; multicolour; multicoloured; painted; particolored; particoloured; piebald; pied; varicolored; varicoloured (having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly)

neutral-colored; neutral-coloured (having a color that does not attract attention)

olive-colored; olive-coloured (having the color of green olives)

orange-colored; orange-coloured; orange-hued (having the color of ripe oranges)

orange-flowered (having orange flowers)

pale-colored; pale-hued (having a pale color)

pastel-colored (having pale delicate colors)

peach-colored (having the color of a ripe peach)

polychromatic; polychrome; polychromic (having or exhibiting many colors)

purple-flowered (having purple flowers)

red-flowered (having red flowers)

roan ((used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey)

rose-colored; rosy-colored (having a rose color)

rust-colored (having the brown color of rust)

silver-colored (having the color of polished silver)

straw-colored; straw-coloured (having the color of dry straw)

tawny-colored; tawny-coloured (having a tawny color)

trichromatic; trichrome; tricolor (having or involving three colors)

violet-colored; violet-coloured; violet-flowered (having a violet color)

indigo (having a color between blue and violet)

crimson; flushed; red; red-faced; reddened ((especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion)

bay ((used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color)

bichrome; bicolor; bicolored; bicolour; bicoloured; dichromatic (having two colors)

black; blackened ((of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood)

blue-flowered (having blue flowers)

brightly-colored; brightly-coloured (having a bright color)

buff-colored; buff-coloured (having a buff color)

chestnut-colored; chestnut-coloured (having the brown color of chestnuts)

chocolate-colored; chocolate-coloured (having the color of dark chocolate)

cinnamon-colored; cinnamon-coloured; cinnamon colored; cinnamon coloured (having the color of cinnamon)

cinnamon-red (red tinged with cinnamon)

cream-colored; creamy-colored; creamy-white (having the color of fresh cream)

dark-colored; dark-coloured; dusky-colored; dusky-coloured (having a dark color)

dun-colored; dun-coloured (having a dun color)

fawn-colored; fawn-coloured (having the color of a fawn)

flame-colored; flame-coloured (having the brilliant orange-red color of flames)

flesh-colored; flesh-coloured (having a bright red or pinkish color)

garnet-colored; garnet-coloured (having the color of garnet)

ginger; gingery ((used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color)

gold-colored; gold-coloured (having the color of gold)

honey-colored; honey-coloured (having the color of honey)

lead-colored; lead-coloured (having the color of lead)

Attribute:

color; coloring; colour; colouring (a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Favoring one person or side over another

Synonyms:

biased; colored; coloured; one-sided; slanted

Context example:

a decision that was partial to the defendant

Similar:

partial (showing favoritism)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(used of color) artificially produced; not natural

Synonyms:

bleached; colored; coloured; dyed

Context example:

a bleached blonde

Similar:

artificial; unreal (contrived by art rather than nature)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Having skin rich in melanin pigments

Synonyms:

colored; coloured; negro

Similar:

black (of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin)

 Context examples 

Both nose and tongue had been scorched by the live thing, sun-coloured, that had grown up under Grey Beaver's hands.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There was a coloured gas-lamp inside which was turned so low that I could see little save that the hall was of some size and hung with pictures.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These next-generation solar cells could be used as an efficiency-boosting layer on top of existing silicon-based solar cells, or be made into stand-alone solar cells or coloured LEDs.

(Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost, University of Cambridge)

He was a different man from the limp and lounging figure in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown who had prowled so restlessly only a few hours before round the fog-girt room.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was dressed in pure white; an amber-coloured scarf was passed over her shoulder and across her breast, tied at the side, and descending in long, fringed ends below her knee.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Grey-coloured woods covered a large part of the surface.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mrs. Strong, dressed in white, with cherry-coloured ribbons, was playing the piano, when we went in; and he was leaning over her to turn the leaves.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery which he had named.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Is this, thought Elizabeth, meant for me? and she coloured at the idea; but, recovering herself, said in a lively tone, And pray, what is the usual price of an earl's younger son?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He wore a semi-military smoking jacket, claret-coloured, with a black velvet collar.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)