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reddish

[ red-ish ]

adjective

  1. somewhat red; tending to red; tinged with red.


ˈreddish

/ ˈrɛdɪʃ /

adjective

  1. somewhat red
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈreddishness, noun
  • ˈreddishly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • reddish·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of reddish1

First recorded in 1350–1400, reddish is from the Middle English word redische. See red 1, -ish 1
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Example Sentences

This elephant-sized creature had shaggy reddish-brown fur and long, curving tusks.

Their heads also protrude a bit higher due to the slight differences in the positioning of their vertebrates—allowing a better look at the gold ring encircling their reddish-brown eyes.

A gregarious man with fading hair and a reddish beard, Charlie often helped Mami with housekeeping and other chores.

By the 1790s, British entrepreneurs were adding palm oil to soap for its reddish-orange color and violetlike scent.

It has a reddish tint, hanging out in the constellation Pisces.

Instead, they are blobs of reddish stars without any particular structure.

Her finely penciled lips are a coppery brown, playing off her salmon-colored suit and her reddish hair.

A few years later, Goudeau met Carr, a slender woman with a mane of long reddish-brown hair, at a Phoenix nightclub.

Pedestrians dodge streams of reddish liquid in the streets, said to be pollution from tanneries.

The hair is more reddish these days, and he likes to tuck under a black calf-skin hat.

Microscopically, they are yellow or reddish-brown crystals, which differ greatly in size and shape.

Malarial parasites stain characteristically: the cytoplasm, sky-blue; the chromatin, reddish-purple.

The surface is covered by a shallow, reddish-coloured soil, producing a variety of shrubs and plants.

She had the reddish hair of the Binns and the pearl-blue eyes of the Rummelsbergers from over the mountains.

The cliffs of Red Point partake of a reddish tinge and appear to be disposed nearly in horizontal strata.

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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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  • redishness (noun)

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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.

 

 

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Which of the following is NOT a synonym for reddish?

A. crimson
B. rosy
C. claret
D. bluish

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