Difference between Indigo and Colored

What is the difference between Indigo and Colored?

Indigo as an adjective is having a deep blue colour. while Colored as an adjective is having a particular color or kind of color.

Indigo

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a deep blue colour.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A purplish-blue colour A blue dye obtained from certain plants (the indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.

Colored

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a particular color or kind of color.Having prominent colors; colorful.Influenced pervasively but subtly.Of skin color other than the white, particularly black.Of neither black nor white skin color.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: (demeaning or potentially offensive) A colored person.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give something color.

Example sentence: Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

We hope you now know whether to use Indigo or Colored in your sentence.

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