discolored

English

Alternative forms

• discolor’d (obsolete)
• discolour’d (obsolete)
• discoloured

Adjective

discolored (comparative more discolored, superlative most discolored)

1. 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

2. (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

• (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

Translations

deprived of color

• Latin: dēcolor
• Maori: kōruhi (of floodwater), koehu (of water), renga (of water), parā
• Portuguese: descolorido (pt) m
• Russian: обесцве́ченный (ru) (obescvéčennyj), вы́цветший (ru) (výcvetšij), полиня́лый (ru) (polinjályj)

Verb

discolored

1. simple past and past participle of discolor