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REDDISH
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
Synonyms:
blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry; cherry-red; crimson; red; reddish; ruby; ruby-red; ruddy; scarlet
Classified under:
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Context examples:
Leaving your door just as day was breaking, you filled your pocket with some reddish gravel that was lying heaped beside your gate.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Puppies are often born dark, but the adult comes in many combinations of black, black and tan, reddish, red grizzle, wheat, liver and blue, grizzle, and grizzle and tan.
(Lakeland Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)
A yellowish-reddish, aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of six fused rings and produced by incomplete combustion of organic matter.
(Dibenzo[a,e]pyrene, NCI Thesaurus)
With its swirl of reddish hues, it’s 2-3 times as wide as Earth and is seen by many as a “perpetual hurricane,” with winds peaking at about 400 miles an hour.
(Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Likely a Massive Heat Source, NASA)
Possibilities being studied include ideas that the reddish material is exposed ice with chemical impurities, or the result of outgassing from inside Tethys.
(Unusual Red Arcs Spotted on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)
Holmes pointed down the long tract of road which wound, a reddish yellow band, between the brown of the heath and the budding green of the woods.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Harmful algae blooms often come in the form of "red tides," so called because of the reddish tint they lend ocean waters.
(Scientists discover genetic basis for how harmful algae blooms become toxic, National Science Foundation)
Their hair already betrayed the reddish hue inherited from their mother, the she-wolf; while he alone, in this particular, took after his father.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It appears to be a dark, reddish, highly-elongated rocky or high-metal-content object.
(ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before, ESO)
Any of a group of colors reddish in hue, of medium to high lightness, and of low to moderate saturation.
(Pink, NCI Thesaurus)
