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off-coloured

off-coloured adjective: having the correct, desired, or pure colour tainted or stained.

Adjective

off-coloured (comparative more off-coloured, superlative most off-coloured)

  1. Having the correct, desired, or pure colour tainted or stained.
    • The photograph was certainly very off-coloured. An unkind critic might easily have misinterpreted that dim surface.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘It’s Just the very Biggest Thing in the World’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 55

Forms of off-coloured

comparativemore off-coloured
superlativemost off-coloured

Origin of off-coloured

From off- + coloured.

Questions about off-coloured

What does off-coloured mean?
Off-coloured means having the correct, desired, or pure colour tainted or stained.
What part of speech is off-coloured?
Off-coloured is an adjective.

Words near off-coloured in the dictionary

  1. off-chain
  2. off-chance
  3. off-collab
  4. off-color
  5. off-colour
  6. off-coloured
  7. off-come
  8. off-corn
  9. off-day
  10. off-dry
  11. off-duty

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