discolored
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- discolor’d (obsolete)
- discolour’d (obsolete)
- discoloured
Adjective
[edit]discolored (comparative more discolored, superlative most discolored)
- Deprived of color, or given the wrong color; pale, stained.
- 2005, Alice in Chains (lyrics and music), “Sludge Factory”:
- Once again you see an in / Discolored skin gives you away
- (obsolete) Multicolored.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book III, canto XI:
- More sundry colours, then the proud Pauone / Beares in his boasted fan, or Iris bright, / When her discolourd bow she spreds through heauens hight.
Synonyms
[edit]- (deprived of color): bleached, decoloured, whitened
- (given the wrong color): blemished, maculate, tarnished; see also Thesaurus:discolored
- (multicolored): motley, multihued, polychromatic; see also Thesaurus:multicolored
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]deprived of color
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Verb
[edit]discolored
- simple past and past participle of discolor