discolored

English

Alternative forms

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

Adjective

discolored (comparative more discolored, superlative most discolored)

Deprived of color, or given the wrong color; pale, stained.
(obsolete) Multicolored.
- 1590, Spenser, Edmund, 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

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

simple past tense and past participle of discolor

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