DYED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dyed mean? 

• DYED (adjective)
  The adjective DYED has 1 sense:

1. (used of color) artificially produced; not natural

  Familiarity information: DYED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DYED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used of color) artificially produced; not natural

Synonyms:

bleached; colored; coloured; dyed

Context example:

a bleached blonde

Similar:

artificial; unreal (contrived by art rather than nature)

 Context examples 

He was squatting in the moss, a bone in his mouth, sucking at the shreds of life that still dyed it faintly pink.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

(I had green eyes, reader; but you must excuse the mistake: for him they were new-dyed, I suppose.)

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her lips were flesh like his, and cherries dyed them as cherries dyed his.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She had a great idea that people who had extensive grounds themselves cared very little for the extensive grounds of any body else; but it was not worth while to attack an error so double-dyed, and therefore only said in reply, When you have seen more of this country, I am afraid you will think you have overrated Hartfield.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She pointed to a wide arch corresponding to the window, and hung like it with a Tyrian-dyed curtain, now looped up.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You've dyed your hair since then, remarked Jordan, and I started but the girls had moved casually on and her remark was addressed to the premature moon, produced like the supper, no doubt, out of a caterer's basket.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)