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color-struck

color-struck adjective: having a personal prejudice against darker-skinned people.

Adjective

color-struck (comparative more color-struck, superlative most color-struck)

  1. (African-American Vernacular) Having a personal prejudice against darker-skinned people.

Forms of color-struck

comparativemore color-struck
superlativemost color-struck
alternative formcolour-struck

Questions about color-struck

What does color-struck mean?
Color-struck means having a personal prejudice against darker-skinned people.
What part of speech is color-struck?
Color-struck is an adjective.

Words near color-struck in the dictionary

  1. color-octet
  2. color-octets
  3. color-proud
  4. color-screw
  5. color-screws
  6. color-struck
  7. colorabilities
  8. colorability
  9. colorable
  10. colorableness
  11. colorably

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