décoloré
French, adjective
décoloré is a French adjective meaning “bleaching, decolorant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of décolorer. With an accent, décolore is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a perdu sa couleur d’origine (en parlant des vêtements, des cheveux…)”.
What does décoloré mean in English?
adjective
- 1
bleaching, decolorant
verb
- 1
past participle of décolorer
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a perdu sa couleur d’origine (en parlant des vêtements, des cheveux…). 2. Qui a décoloré ses cheveux.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of décoloré
- décolorée feminine
- décolorés masculine plural
- décolorées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to décoloré
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is décoloré in French?
décoloré appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).