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[ red-ish ] / ˈrɛd ɪʃ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR reddish ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivesomewhat red; tending to red; tinged with red. Origin of reddishFirst recorded in 1350–1400, reddish is from the Middle English word redische.See red1, -ish1 OTHER WORDS FROM reddishred·dish·ness, nounWords nearby reddishRed Deer River, Red Delicious, redden, red devil, Redding, reddish, Redditch, reddle, reddleman, red dog, red dogwood Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for reddishInstead, they are blobs of reddish stars without any particular structure. The Care and Feeding of Baby Giant Galaxies|Matthew R. Francis|May 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST Her finely penciled lips are a coppery brown, playing off her salmon-colored suit and her reddish hair. Shirley MacLaine on ‘Bernie,’ ‘Downton Abbey,’ and Her Lifetime Achievments|Lorenza Muñoz|April 25, 2012|DAILY BEAST Pedestrians dodge streams of reddish liquid in the streets, said to be pollution from tanneries. The Perils of Karachi|Steve Inskeep|October 14, 2011|DAILY BEAST The magician became silent, the incense was condensed and assumed a reddish tint which gradually became more and more diffused. The Magic of the Middle Ages|Viktor Rydberg
Fronteras is the other side of the water—that streak of olive green with reddish shadow. The Treasure of Pearls|Gustave Aimard They were loose, and disseminated upon the road, in a reddish kind of earth. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers|William Bingley Far and wide the sea of verdure rolls around us, broken only by ridges of grayish rock and scarped cliffs of reddish basalt. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land|Henry Van Dyke It is one single shaft of reddish granite (Sienite), and hieroglyphical characters are rudely sculptured upon it. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)|S. Spooner
British Dictionary definitions for reddishDerived forms of reddishreddishly, adverbreddishness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to reddishcrimson, blooming, cerise, claret, florid, flush, flushed, fresh, full-blooded, glowing, healthy, pink, red, roseate, rosy, rubicund, sanguine, blowsy, bronzed, ruby |