Colorful vs. Colored

Colorfuladjective

Possessing prominent and varied colors.

Colorfuladjective

Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.

Colorfuladjective

(euphemistic) Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language).

Colorful

having striking color. Opposite of colorless.

Colorful

striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull.

Colorful

having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.

Colorfuladjective

having striking color;

Colorfuladjective

striking in variety and interest;

Colorfuladjective

having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination;

Coloredadjective

Having a color.

Coloredadjective

Having a particular color or kind of color.

Coloredadjective

Having prominent colors; colorful.

Coloredadjective

Influenced pervasively but subtly.

Coloredadjective

Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.

Coloredadjective

(South Africa) Of neither black nor white skin color.

Coloredadjective

Designated for use by colored people in either the US or South African sense.

Colorednoun

A colored person.

Colorednoun

(laundry) A colored article of clothing.

Coloredverb

simple past tense and past participle of color

Coloredadjective

Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.

Coloredadjective

Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description.

Coloredadjective

Of some other color than black or white.

Coloredadjective

Of some other color than white; having a skin color darker than that of caucasian people; mostly applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people. Opposite of white and caucasian.

Coloredadjective

Of some other color than green.

Colorednoun

a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive

Coloredadjective

having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination;

Coloredadjective

having skin rich in melanin pigments;

Coloredadjective

favoring one person or side over another;

Coloredadjective

(used of color) artificially produced; not natural;

Colored

Colored or coloured, is an ethnic descriptor historically used in the United States (predominantly during the Jim Crow era) and other European-settled countries and their former colonies. In many of these places, it is now considered an ethnic slur, though has taken on a special meaning in Southern Africa.