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COLOURED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having skin rich in melanin pigments
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
black (of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination
Example:
amber-colored heads of grain
Synonyms:
colored; colorful; coloured
Classified under:
Similar:
liver; liver-colored (having a reddish-brown color)
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)
violet-purple (light violet and dark purple)
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)
indigo (having a color between blue and violet)
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 3
Meaning:
(used of color) artificially produced; not natural
Example:
a bleached blonde
Synonyms:
bleached; colored; coloured; dyed
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
artificial; unreal (contrived by art rather than nature)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Favoring one person or side over another
Example:
a decision that was partial to the defendant
Synonyms:
biased; colored; coloured; one-sided; slanted
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
partial (showing favoritism)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb colour
Context examples:
She coloured deeply, and he recollected himself and moved away.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He coloured very deeply, and giving a momentary glance at Elinor, replied, "Yes; it is my sister's hair. The setting always casts a different shade on it, you know."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Jim appeared in the ring stripped to the waist, with a coloured handkerchief tied round his middle.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Catherine coloured as she warmly answered, “No friend can be better worth keeping than Eleanor.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
She looked up at him for a moment, coloured deeply, and played something else.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She reproached herself, coloured, and looked fearfully towards her father and mother.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Without social transmission taking place in predator species such as great tits, it becomes extremely difficult for conspicuously coloured prey to outlast and outcompete alternative prey, even if they are distasteful or toxic.
(Birds learn from each other’s ‘disgust’, enabling insects to evolve bright colours, University of Cambridge)
Heliconians have evolved to produce their own cyanide which makes them highly poisonous and they have distinct and brightly coloured wings which act as a warning to would-be predators.
(Butterflies are genetically wired to choose a mate that looks just like them, University of Cambridge)
This material was blown out by strong stellar winds and energised by ultraviolet radiation from the hot stellar core left behind, creating a circumstellar nebula of dust and brightly-coloured hot gas.
(The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula, ESO)
And he proposed further, that by employing spiders, the charge of dyeing silks should be wholly saved; whereof I was fully convinced, when he showed me a vast number of flies most beautifully coloured, wherewith he fed his spiders, assuring us that the webs would take a tincture from them; and as he had them of all hues, he hoped to fit everybody’s fancy, as soon as he could find proper food for the flies, of certain gums, oils, and other glutinous matter, to give a strength and consistence to the threads.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
