Difference between Straw-colored and Colored

What is the difference between Straw-colored and Colored?

Straw-colored as an adjective is pale yellow, the color of straw. while Colored as an adjective is having a particular color or kind of color.

Straw-colored

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Pale yellow, the color of straw.

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: Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

We hope you now know whether to use Straw-colored or Colored in your sentence.

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