Difference between Dyed and Coloured

What is the difference between Dyed and Coloured?

Dyed as a verb is to colour with dye, or as if with dye. while Coloured as a verb is to give something color.

Dyed

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Coloured or tinted with dye.

Example sentence: I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

Coloured

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give something color.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a particular colour or kind of colourHaving prominent colours; colourfulInfluenced pervasively but subtlyOf skin colour other than the white, particularly black.Of neither black nor white skin colour.

We hope you now know whether to use Dyed or Coloured in your sentence.

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