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| Main Entry: |
blush
 [bluhsh] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pink coloring |
| Synonyms: | bloom, blossom, burning, color, flush, flushing, glow, glowing, mantling, pink tinge, reddening, redness, rosiness, rosy tint, ruddiness, scarlet |
| Antonyms: | paleness, pallidity, whiteness |
| 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: | ruddy |
| 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 |
Example Sentences
- The first models strode down the runway clad in basic scarlet right down to their shoes and stockings.
- In fall, large, bottle-shaped hips ripen to brilliant scarlet.
- Small pinkish white summer flowers are followed by scarlet berries.
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | carmine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | red |
| Synonyms: | cherry, color, crimson, scarlet |
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| Main Entry: | red |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
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Adjectives: |
red, blowzed, blowzy, blushing, brick, buff, burnt, carroty, cerise, cherry, coral, crimson, erubescent, ferruginous, flame, flammulated, flesh, foxy, gules, hot, hot pink, incarnadin, incarnadine, latericeous, lateritious, lurid, magenta, maroon, murrey, phenicious, poppy, puniceous, red as a lobster, red as a turkey, red as fire, red as scarlet, reddened, reddish, roon, rose, roseate, rubedinous, rubescent, rubicund, rubiginous, ruby, rufous, russet, rutilant, salmon, shell, sorrel, stammel, vinaceous, warm
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