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discolour'd

discolour'd is the obsolete form of discolored.

discolour'd is the simple past and past participle of discolour.

Meaning of discolored

Adjective

discolored (comparative more discolored, superlative most discolored)

  1. Deprived of color, or given the wrong color; pale, stained.
    • Once again you see an in / Discolored skin gives you away / So afraid, you kindly gurgle out a date for me2005, Alice in Chains, “Sludge Factory”, in Alice in Chains (grunge)
  2. (obsolete) Multicolored.
    • More sundry colours, then the proud Pauone / Beares in his boasted fan, or Iris bright, / When her discolourd bow she spreds through heauens hight.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book III, canto XI
    Synonyms:
    motley

Meaning of discolour

Verb

discolour (third-person singular simple present discolours, present participle discolouring, simple past and past participle discoloured)

  1. British and Canadian standard spelling of discolor.
    • Instead, the grime of the steam years which still discoloured many of the best architectural features Betjeman loved has been cleared away, and several of the stations have benefited from major refurbishments which have greatly improved them.2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 63

Forms of discolour'd

comparativemore discolour'd
superlativemost discolour'd

Questions about discolour'd

What is discolour'd the obsolete form of?
Discolour'd is the obsolete form of discolored.

Words near discolour'd in the dictionary

  1. discolorment
  2. discolorous
  3. discolorously
  4. discolors
  5. discolour
  6. discolour'd
  7. discolouration
  8. discolourations
  9. discoloured
  10. discolourer
  11. discolourers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: discolour'd (page history and authors); discolored (page history and authors); discolour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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