Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pinkish, blushing |
| Synonyms: | blooming, blowsy, bronzed, crimson, florid, flush, flushed, fresh, full-blooded, glowing, healthy, pink, red, red-complexioned, reddish, roseate, rosy, rubicund, ruby, sanguine, scarlet |
| Antonyms: | pale |
| Main Entry: | cherry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright red color |
| Synonyms: | blooming, blushing, bright red, cerise, claret, crimson, dark red, erubescent, incarnadine, reddish, rosy, rubescent, rubicund, ruddy |
| Main Entry: | flushed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pink, glowing |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, animated, aroused, blushing, burning, crimson, elated, embarrassed, enthused, exhilarated, feverish, florid, full-blooded, high, hot, inspired, intoxicated, red, rosy, rubicund, ruddy, rutilant, rutilous, sanguine, thrilled |
| Antonyms: | pale, pallid |
| Main Entry: | fresh |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | energetic, healthy |
| Synonyms: | active, alert, blooming, bouncing, bright, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, chipper, clear, dewy, fair, florid, glowing, good, hardy, invigorated, keen, like new, lively, refreshed, rehabilitated, relaxed, relieved, rested, restored, revived, rosy, ruddy, sprightly, spry, stimulated, undimmed, unfaded, unused, unwearied, unwithered, verdant, vigorous, vital, wholesome, young |
| Antonyms: | exhausted, lifeless, tired, unenergetic, worn |
| Main Entry: | glowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | burning, bright |
| Synonyms: | aglow, beaming, flaming, florid, flush, flushed, gleaming, lambent, luminous, lustrous, phosphorescent, red, rich, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine, suffused, vibrant, vivid, warm |
| Main Entry: | red |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | color of blood; shade resembling such a color |
| Synonyms: | bittersweet, bloodshot, blooming, blush, brick, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, cerise, cherry, chestnut, claret, copper, coral, crimson, dahlia, flaming, florid, flushed, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, glowing, healthy, inflamed, infrared, magenta, maroon, pink, puce, rose, roseate, rosy, rubicund, ruby, ruddy, rufescent, russet, rust, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, titian, vermilion, wine |
| Main Entry: | redden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blush, make rosy |
| Synonyms: | bloody, color, crimson, dye, flush, glow, go red, incarnadine, mantle, paint, pink, pinken, rose, rouge, rubify, rubric, rubricate, ruby, ruddle, ruddy, rust, suffuse, tint, turn red |
| Antonyms: | lighten, pale |
| Main Entry: | rosy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pink, reddish in color |
| Synonyms: | aflush, blooming, blushing, colored, coral, deep pink, fresh, glowing, healthy-looking, high-colored, incarnadine, pale red, peach, red, red-complexioned, red-faced, rose-colored, roseate, rubicund, ruddy |
| Antonyms: | pale |
| Main Entry: | sanguine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reddish; flushed |
| Synonyms: | bloody, florid, flush, glowing, red, rubicund, ruddy, scarlet |
| Notes: | sanguinary means accompanied by bloodshed or eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed, while sanguine means confidently optimistic and cheerful or inclined to a healthy reddish color |
| Antonyms: | pale, pallid, sallow |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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