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reddish
[ red-ish ]
adjective
- somewhat red; tending to red; tinged with red.
ˈ徱
/ ˈɛɪʃ /
adjective
- somewhat red
Derived Forms
- ˈ徱ness, noun
- ˈ徱ly, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- d·Ա noun
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
Lake Powell has shimmered between Glen Canyon’s reddish sandstone walls along the Arizona-Utah border since the dam was completed in the 1960s.
The “blood moon” will be visible in every state between Thursday night and Friday morning and will glow with a reddish hue.
Venus and Jupiter will be the easiest to spot due to their brightness, while Mars will have a distinct reddish hue.
The prosecution had claimed the stains were reddish when the clothes were recovered - but the defence argued that blood would have turned blackish after being immersed in miso for so long.
Discovery asked to use depicts “Blade Runner 2049” star Ryan Gosling walking away from the camera across a desolate, dystopian landscape reduced to rubble and reddish dirt.
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More About Reddish
What does reddish mean?
Reddish describes something that is somewhat red or tinted red, as in After washing my shirt hundreds of times, it’s gone from red to merely reddish.
The color red is a primary color at one end of the visible spectrum and is the color of human blood. Something that is reddish is not fully red.
Example: The sky turned a reddish color as the moon began obscuring the sun.
Where does reddish come from?
The first records of the term reddish come from the 1300s. It comes from the Middle English redische. It combines the term red, a color that resembles the color of blood, and the suffix –ish, which means “somewhat like.”
Reddish can be used to describe a color that is between red and white, or at least between red and a very light color. It can also be used to describe a color that is between two colors, one of them being red, such as reddish-orange or reddish-purple. Because of the way the color spectrum is viewed, reddish is generally only applied to colors between orange and purple because reddish-blue is purple, reddish-yellow is orange, and reddish combined with any other color is simply brown.
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How is reddish used in real life?
Reddish is mostly commonly used to describe the color of something as being somewhat red.
This morning I sat with a cup of coffee taking in the beauty of a reddish orange sunrise and counted my blessings. A quiet time and a reminder that moments like this are part of life’s treasures.
— Dan Rather (@DanRather)
yard work on Mars consists of raking the bits of reddish brown rock away from the other bits of reddish brown rock
— bill wurtz (@billwurtz)
So, I understand why green is very common in nature. Why does it seem like plants have a second favorite color which is something like reddish purple?
— Zach Weinersmith (@ZachWeiner)
Try using reddish!
Which of the following is NOT a synonym for reddish?
A. crimson
B. rosy
C. claret
D. bluish
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