discolored
adj1
Deprived of color, or given the wrong color; pale, stained.
- Once again you see an in / Discolored skin gives you away2005, Alice in Chains, “Sludge Factory”:
2
Obsolete Multicolored.
- More sundry colours, then the proud Pauone / Beares in his boasted fan, or Iris bright, / When her discolourd bow she spreds through heauens hight.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book III, canto XI:
- Synonyms
- bleached, decoloured, whitened, blemished, maculate, tarnished, motley, multihued, polychromatic, discolored, blotched, blotchy, mottled, smeared, smeary, smudged, stained, spotted, spotty
- Antonyms
- clean, immaculate, pure, unblemished, unmarked, unstained, untarnished, spotless
- Derived terms
- discoloredness, undiscolored
- Hypernyms
- deteriorated, marked, unclean