colored

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈkʌləɹd/

Adjective

US dated offensive usually South-Africa capitalized sometimes historical

(American spelling) Having a color. / Having a particular color or kind of color. / Having prominent colors; colorful. / Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.

Japanese Meaning

色を有する、あるいは特定の色または種類の色がある状態。 / 色がはっきりしている、彩り豊かである状態。 / （比喩的に）偏った、特定の影響や傾向を受けている様子。

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She hung a string of colored lights across the porch for the festival.

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彼女は祭りのためにポーチに色とりどりのライトをつるした。

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Sense（1）

(American spelling) Having a color.

Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.

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Sense（2）

Having a particular color or kind of color.

The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.

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Sense（3）

Having prominent colors; colorful.

The singer wore a colored shirt.

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Sense（4）

Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.

Mr. Brewer gave me his version of the history of the Conference of Studio Unions. It appeared to me then and appears to me now to have been a very colored view.

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(US, now dated and usually offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.

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Sense（6）

(South Africa, sometimes capitalized) Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.)