Difference between Multicolored and Colored

What is the difference between Multicolored and Colored?

Multicolored as an adjective is having multiple colors / colours while Colored as an adjective is having a particular color or kind of color.

Multicolored

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having multiple colors / colours

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 Multicolored or Colored in your sentence.

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