Unscramble coloured

Definition of coloured

adjective:

• having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper", "the film was in color", "amber-colored heads of grain". Synonyms: colored, colorful. Antonyms: uncolored.
• favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account of the trial", "a decision that was partial to the defendant". Synonyms: biased, colored, one-sided, slanted.
• (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde". Synonyms: bleached, colored, dyed.
• having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People", "dark-skinned peoples". Synonyms: colored, dark, dark-skinned, non-white.

verb:

• modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures". Synonyms: color, colour.
• decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones". Synonyms: color, colour, emblazon.
• give a deceptive explanation or excuse for; "color a lie". Synonyms: color, colour, gloss.
• affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case", "The sadness tinged his life". Synonyms: color, colour, distort, tinge.
• add color to; "The child colored the drawings", "Fall colored the trees", "colorize black and white film". Synonyms: color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize. Antonyms: discolor.
• change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored". Synonyms: color, colour, discolor, discolour.

Related words

aurify, azure, black, blacken, blackwash, blanch, blench, blotch, blue, blush, bronze, brown, burn, crimson, dye, embrown, empurple, flush, gray, green, grey, handcolor, handcolour, hue, imbue, incarnadine, melanise, melanize, miniate, motley, mottle, nigrify, pale, pigment, pinkify, polychrome, polychromise, polychromize, purple, purpurate, redden, retouch, silver, streak, sunburn, tan, tinct, tinge, tint, tone, touch, turn, verdigris, white, whiten, yellow.

Words nearby

colored.

Rhymes with

colored, multicolored.