Colored meaning : To give something color. To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons. (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow. To affect without completely changing. To attribute a quality to; to portray (as). To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color. A colored person. (laundry) A colored article of clothing. Having a color. Having a particular color or kind of color. Having prominent colors; colorful. Influenced pervasively but subtly. Of skin color other than white; in particular, black. Of neither black nor white skin color. Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).