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coloured

 
Adjective coloured has 4 senses
  1. colored, coloured, colorful - having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"
  2. biased, colored, coloured, one-sided, slanted - favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the defendant"
    Antonyms: impartial, fair (indirect, via partial)
  3. bleached, colored, coloured, dyed - (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde"
    Antonym: natural (indirect, via artificial)
  4. colored, coloured, dark, dark-skinned - having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples"
    Antonyms: white, caucasian (indirect, via black)
Verb colour has 6 senses
  1. color, colour - modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"
    --1 is one way to influence, act upon, work
    Derived form: noun colour1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  2. color, colour, emblazon - decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
    --2 is one way to decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
    Derived form: noun colour1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. color, colour, gloss - gloss or excuse; "color a lie"
    --3 is one way to apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. tinge, color, colour, distort - affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
    --4 is one way to affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  5. color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
    --5 is one way to change, alter, modify
    Derived forms: noun colouring1, noun colouring2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  6. discolor, discolour, colour, color - change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"
    --6 is one way to change
    Derived forms: noun colour1, noun colouring3
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
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