coloured

Other forms of coloured

comparative

colouredder·

superlative

coloureddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about coloured

What does coloured mean?

coloured means "having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coloured?

coloured has 2 syllables: colour-ed. The stress falls on "colour". In IPA it is /ˈkʌlɚd/.

What is another word for coloured?

Close synonyms include colored, colorful, biased, colored, one-sided. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coloured a common word?

coloured is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with coloured?

2 words rhyme with coloured. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.