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off-coloured en · ADJ

Etymology

From off- + coloured.

Meanings

  1. Having the correct, desired, or pure colour tainted or stained.
    • The photograph was certainly very off-coloured. An unkind critic might easily have misinterpreted that dim surface. 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘It’s Just the very Biggest Thing in the World’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 55:

Forms

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most off-coloured Degree=Sup lexicographic
more off-coloured Degree=Cmp lexicographic