Synonyms of the word

colored

• adj. Having a color.
• adj. Having a particular color or kind of color.
• adj. Having prominent colors; colorful.
• adj. Influenced pervasively but subtly.
• adj. (US, now dated and potentially offensive) Of skin color other than the white; in particular: black.
• adj. (South Africa, potentially offensive) Of neither black nor white skin color.
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
• n. (US, now dated and offensive) A colored person.
• n. (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of color.

artificial

• adj. Man-made; of artifice.
• adj. False, misleading.
• adj. Unnatural.

bay

• n. (obsolete) A berry.
• n. Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
• n. The leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or…
• n. (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
• n. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
• n. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.
• n. A bank or dam to keep back water.
• n. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
• n. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
• n. The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
• n. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
• n. (rail transport) A bay platform.
• n. A bay window.
• n. The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
• n. (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
• n. (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become…
• v. (intransitive) To howl.
• v. (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
• v. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
• adj. Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).
• n. A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
• n. A horse of this color.

biased

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bias.
• adj. exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
• adj. angled at a slant.
• adj. (electrical engineering) on which an electrical bias is applied.
• adj. (Statistics) exhibiting a systematic distortion of results due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation.

bichrome

• adj. Having two colours.

bicolor

• adj. Alternative form of bicolour.

bicolored

• adj. Alternative form of bicoloured.

bicolour

• adj. Having two colours.
• n. A flower, cat etc., that has two colours.

bicoloured

• adj. Of two colours.

black

• adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
• adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
• adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the…
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”).
• adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
• adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
• adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
• adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
• adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
• adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black"…
• adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a…
• adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
• adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light…
• n. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
• n. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
• n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
• n. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
• n. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
• n. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
• n. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
• n. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
• n. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
• n. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
• v. To make black, to blacken.
• v. To apply blacking to something.
• v. (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

blackamoor

• n. (archaic, offensive) A person with dark skin, especially (but not necessarily) one from northern Africa.
• n. a blackamoor slave, a blackamoor servant; and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child.
• n. (heraldry) a stylized Negro.

blackened

• adj. Darkened to the degree that something appears almost black in color.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of blacken.

bleached

• adj. whitened; made white using bleach.
• adj. Having the hair lightened by bleaching.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of bleach.

calico

• n. A kind of rough cloth, often printed with a bright pattern.
• n. A cat with fur of the colors black, white and orange.
• adj. Having a pattern of red and contrasting areas, resembling the color of calico cloth.

colorful

• adj. Possessing prominent and varied colors.
• adj. Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.
• adj. (euphemistic) Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language).

coloured

• adj. British spelling standard spelling of colored.
• n. British spelling standard spelling of colored.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of colour.

crimson

• n. A deep, slightly bluish red.
• adj. Having a deep red colour.
• adj. Having loose morals.
• v. to blush.
• v. To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.

dark

• adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
• adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
• adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
• adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
• adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
• adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
• n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
• n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
• n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
• n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

dark-skinned

• adj. Having a relatively dark skin.

dichromatic

• adj. having two colors.
• adj. (pathology) having a form of colorblindness in which only two of the three primary colors can be distinguished.
• adj. (zoology) having two independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.
• adj. (biology) occurring or existing in two different ornamentations or colors, typically as a form of sexual…
• adj. (optics) having two hues, either of which may be visible depending on both the concentration of the absorbing…
• adj. (optics) exhibiting dichroism; dichroic.

dyed

• adj. Coloured or tinted with dye.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of dye.

flesh-colored

• adj. Of the color of flesh.

flesh-coloured

• adj. British standard form of flesh-colored.

flushed

• adj. Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of flush.

ginger

• n. The pungent aromatic rhizome of a tropical Asian herb, Zingiber officinale, used as a spice and as a stimulant…
• n. The plant that produces this rhizome.
• n. Other species belonging to the same family, Zingiberaceae, especially those of the genus Zingiber.
• n. A reddish-brown color.
• n. (colloquial, often derogatory, countable) A person with reddish-brown hair; a redhead.
• n. (colloquial, uncountable) Vitality, vigour, liveliness (of character).
• adj. (of hair) Of a reddish-brown colour.
• v. To add ginger to.
• v. To enliven, to spice (up).
• v. To apply ginger to the anus of a horse to encourage it to carry its tail high and move in a lively fashion.
• v. (Nigeria) To inspire, give (someone) a bit of a boost.
• adj. sensitive, delicate.
• v. To move gingerly, very careful and cautious.
• n. (Britain, Cockney rhyming slang) A homosexual.
• adj. (Britain, Cockney rhyming slang) Homosexual.

gingery

• adj. somewhat ginger in colour.
• adj. having a flavour of the spice ginger.

honey-colored

• adj. having the color of honey; golden.

indigo

• n. A purplish-blue colour.
• n. An indigo-colored dye obtained from certain plants (the indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic…
• n. An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo),…
• adj. having a deep blue colour.

liver

• n. (anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces…
• n. (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
• n. A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
• adj. Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
• n. Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
• adj. comparative form of live: more live.

monochromatic

• adj. Having only one color, represented by differing hues and tints. For example shades in a black and white…
• adj. Perceptive of only one color; unable to distinguish colors; total color blindness.
• adj. (figuratively) Plain, dull, lifeless.

monochrome

• n. A black and white image, especially such a photograph.
• n. (dated) A painting executed in shades of a single colour.
• n. A ceramic glaze of a single colour; an object so glazed.
• adj. having only one colour.
• adj. (photography) representing colours with shades of gray.

monochromic

• adj. Of a single colour; monochromatic.

motley

• adj. Comprising greatly varied elements, to the point of incongruity; heterogeneous.
• adj. Having many colours; variegated.
• n. An incongruous mixture.
• n. A jester's multicoloured clothes.
• n. (by extension) A jester; a fool.

multi-colored

• adj. Alternative form of multicolored.

multi-coloured

• adj. Alternative form of multicoloured: British spelling standard spelling of multicolored.

multicolor

• adj. Having, resembling, or pertaining to many colors.

multicolored

• adj. Having multiple colors.

multicolour

• adj. Britain and Canada standard spelling of multicolor.

multicoloured

• adj. Alternative spelling of multicolored.

one-sided

• adj. Partial or biased in favour of one faction or demographic group.
• adj. With one competitor dominant over the other.
• adj. Out of proportion or lopsided.
• adj. Having only one side, like a Möbius strip.

painted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of paint.
• adj. Coated with paint.
• adj. Depicted in paint.
• adj. Colorful, as if painted.
• adj. Wearing makeup.

partial

• adj. Existing as a part or portion; incomplete.
• adj. (computer science) Describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates.
• adj. Biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute.
• adj. Having a predilection for something.
• adj. (mathematics) Of or relating to a partial derivative or partial differential.
• n. (mathematics) A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function…
• n. (music) Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.
• n. (dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth.
• n. (forensics) An incomplete fingerprint.
• n. (programming, Internet) A fragment of a template containing markup.

particolored

• adj. US standard spelling of particoloured.

particoloured

• adj. Made up of sections having different, often bright, colours.

piebald

• adj. (also used figuratively) Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white.
• adj. (figuratively) Of mixed character, heterogeneous.
• n. An animal with piebald coloration.

pied

• v. simple past tense and past participle of pi.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of pie.
• adj. Decorated or colored in blotches.

polychromatic

• adj. Showing a variety, or a change, of colours; having many colours; multicoloured.
• adj. (physics, of electromagnetic radiation) Composed of more than one wavelength.

polychrome

• adj. Using multiple colours.
• adj. Executed in the manner of polychromy.
• n. (chemistry) esculin (so called in allusion to its fluorescent solutions).

polychromic

• adj. Polychromatic.
• adj. (chemistry) Pertaining to, or designating, any one of several acids (known only in their salts) which…

rainbow-like

• adj. Alternative form of rainbowlike.

red

• adj. Having red as its color.
• adj. (of hair) Having an orange-brown colour; ginger.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”).
• adj. (often capitalized) Left-wing, especially socialist or communist.
• adj. (US, modern) Supportive of or dominated by the political party represented by the color red, especially…
• adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations.
• adj. (US, modern) Of, pertaining to, or run by (a member of) the political party represented by the color red,…
• adj. (Britain) Supportive of the Labour Party.
• adj. (politics) Related to the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
• adj. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum…
• adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of red.
• n. (countable and uncountable) Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible…
• n. (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik,…
• n. (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
• n. (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
• n. (derogatory, offensive) An Amerind.
• n. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
• n. (informal) A red light (a traffic signal).
• n. (Ireland, Britain, beverages, informal) red lemonade.
• n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
• n. (US, colloquial, uncountable) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red").
• v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of rede.
• v. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of redd.
• v. (transitive, Pennsylvania) Alternative spelling of redd.

red-faced

• adj. Used other than as an idiom. Having a face that is the color red.
• adj. With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.

reddened

• adj. Made red.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of redden.

roan

• adj. Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
• adj. Made of the leather called roan.
• n. An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
• n. The color of such an animal.
• n. A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored…

rose-colored

• adj. (American) Alternative spelling of rose-coloured.

slanted

• adj. Placed at an angle, on a slant.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of slant.

straw-colored

• adj. Pale yellow, the color of straw.

trichromatic

• adj. Involving three colours.
• adj. Having perception in three primary colours.

trichrome

• adj. trichromatic.
• n. (cytology) A combined stain that stains three different tissuess three different colours.

tricolor

• adj. Having three colors.
• n. Alternative spelling of tricolour.

unfair

• adj. Not fair, unjust.
• v. To make ugly.

unreal

• adj. fake; not real.
• adj. (slang) larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.

varicolored

• adj. Having a variety of colors; variegated or motley.

varicoloured

• adj. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of varicolored.