Definition: 1. Having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination. 2. Favoring one person or side over another. 3. (used of color) artificially produced; not natural. 4. Having skin rich in melanin pigments.
Use 'coloured' in a sentence:
1. I sat in my father's chair, a mustard-coloured recliner.
2. Many of the patterns show brilliantly coloured flowers.
3. Someone had coloured in all the black and white pictures.
4. Some white boys often bullied the coloured boys.
5. Light coloured, light weight clothes feel cooler in the sun than dark, heavy clothing.
6. He had short ginger-coloured hair and freckles.
7. Andrew couldn't help noticing that she coloured slightly.
8. The artist usually painted his angels with multi-coloured wings.
9. Pigment: Any intensely coloured compound used to colour other materials. To blend ( paint) by pouring alternately between two containers.
10. All these brightly coloured hybrids are so lovely in the garden.
11. The room had been carpeted and the windows glazed with coloured glass.
12. Sometimes the people doing this dance hold brightly coloured scarves.
13. He coloured the picture with a yellow crayon.
14. She was the daughter of Issac and Betsey Bailey, both coloured, and quite dark.
15. The experience had moulded and coloured her whole life.
16. She coloured at his remarks.
17. Almost every classroom has coloured pieces of pottery.
18. There were coloured candles which had spread pools of wax on the furniture.
19. He tends to view the world through rose-coloured spectacles.
20. The illustration shows a cluster of five roses coloured apricot orange.
21. He put on a gaily coloured shirt.
22. The tan-coloured dog looks suspiciously like a pit bull terrier.
23. Each volume is bound in bright-coloured cloth.
24. The black and white pattern is relieved by tiny coloured flowers.
25. He drew a monster and coloured it green.
26. You can often choose between plain white or coloured and patterned scarves.
27. She was wearing a cream-coloured suit.
28. The sky was full of brightly coloured fireworks.
29. The sky was peach coloured in the east, deep blue and starry in the west.
30. Children at school receive coloured stars for work well done.
31. This incident coloured her whole life.
32. Don't let your judgement be coloured by personal feelings.
