discolored en · ADJ
Meanings
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Deprived of color, or given the wrong color; pale, stained.
Once again you see an in / Discolored skin gives you away / So afraid, you kindly gurgle out a date for me
2005, Alice in Chains, “Sludge Factory”, in Alice in Chains (grunge):
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(obsolete) Multicolored.
More sundry colours, then the proud Pauone / Beares in his boasted fan, or Iris bright, / When her discolourd bow she spreds through heauens hight.
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book III, canto XI:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most discolored | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| discolour’d | alternative | lexicographic | |
| more discolored | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| discolor’d | alternative | lexicographic | |
| discoloured | alternative | lexicographic |
Antonyms
clean · unmarked · pure · immaculate · unblemished · spotless · untarnished · unstained
Deriveds
Hypernyms
unclean · deteriorated · marked
Hyponyms
sweatstained · seastained · waterstained · tearstained · bleached · bloodstained · milkstained · sunbleached · bloodied · mudstained · decoloured
Synonyms
whitened (deprived of color) · smeary · blemished (given the wrong color) · decoloured (deprived of color) · smeared · polychromatic · tarnished · blotched · motley (multicolored) · smudged · blotchy · mottled · bleached (deprived of color) · spotted · maculate · stained · multihued · discolored · spotty
Translations (10)
ru вы́цветший (deprived of color) · eo diskolora (deprived of color) · mi parā (deprived of color) · mi koehu (deprived of color) · pt descolorido (deprived of color) · mi renga (deprived of color) · la dēcolor (deprived of color) · ru полиня́лый (deprived of color) · ru обесцве́ченный (deprived of color) · mi kōruhi (of floodwater) (deprived of color)