reddish
adj/ˈɹɛdɪʃ/
Etymology From Middle English redisch; equivalent to red + -ish.
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Somewhat red.
- "Chocolate and cream," the standard colours of G.W.R. rolling stock for 21 years, are now being replaced by an all-over utility coating of reddish-brown. This is the third time that a uniform brown has been adopted as the standard livery of G.W.R. carriages.1943 March and April, “G.W.R. Rolling Stock Colours”, in Railway Magazine, page 106:
- Although the track is ballasted, it does not prevent clouds of reddish dust from the laterite soil blowing about when the train is in motion; after a journey with the windows open a bath is a necessity!1948 September and October, W. S. Darby, “The Gold Coast Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 287:
2 more examples
- Most of the older buildings are of reddish-brown ironstone with mossy-tiled roofs, and almost all have stone-embanked gardens, richly planted and expertly maintained.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 374, about Tealby:
- Donaldson is not by any means one of God’s chosen entertainment-industry stars. He’s not especially handsome, and neither is he particularly funny-looking. At 6ft 5in, and with the sparse reddish beard he nowadays sports, he has the charmingly awkward aspect of a teen who has recently put on a growth spurt and hasn’t quite settled into himself.2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
- Synonyms
- reddy, ruddy, erubescent, florid, reddish, rubicund, rubiform, rubricate, rufescent, rufous, rufulous, russet, rusty
- Antonyms
- achromatic, colorless
- Derived terms
- reddish-brown, reddish egret, reddish-green, reddishly, reddishness
- Hyponyms
- lateritious, mauvelous, rubineous, incarnadine, sanguine, roseate, rosy
- Coordinate terms
- pinkish