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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reddish
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a reddish/greenish/bluish etc colour (=slightly red, green, blue etc)
▪ The glass used for bottles is often a greenish colour.
reddish brown
▪ The earth was reddish brown.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hair
▪ The architect was Robert Atkinson, a shrewd-looking man with sharp features and reddish hair.
▪ Shaheen, well-built, with reddish hair and sparkling blue eyes, is definitely in charge tonight.
▪ He was a handsome young guy with a head of well-oiled reddish hair.
▪ She has short reddish hair and green eyes.
▪ She had tied back her reddish hair behind her ears.
▪ I can feel behind my head the haze of reddish hair going away in the opposite direction.
▪ Sarah was shorter than Catriona, and she had straight reddish hair, not the wild and curly type.
▪ He had a blunt, good-natured face and a thick head of reddish hair.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But within that reddish brown icing on the white cake, you can see the neurons arranged into a half-dozen layers.
▪ He was a handsome young guy with a head of well-oiled reddish hair.
▪ He was tail and lanky and had a long reddish brown beard and lectured in a voice that was basso and happy.
▪ Her bosom was high and she had reddish cheeks.
▪ In winter like a straight-billed Whimbrel, in summer reddish plumage precludes confusion.
▪ Instead, much of the land was of poorer quality, with a reddish hue.
▪ That faint reddish tinge in his fair hair - did you notice that?
▪ The reddish colour of the disk is caused by dust and the whitish region in the centre is the bulge.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reddish

Reddish \Red"dish\ (r?d"d?sh), a. Somewhat red; moderately red. -- Red"dish*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reddish

late 14c., from red (adj.1) + -ish. Related: Reddishness.

Wiktionary
reddish

a. Somewhat red.

WordNet
reddish

adj. having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet]

Wikipedia
Reddish

Reddish is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England. It is north of Stockport and southeast of Manchester. The population is 30,055 in an area of 7.08 square kilometres (2.73 mi²). By the UK Census 2011 the population of both wards (north and south) decreased to a combined total of 28,052. Historically a part of Lancashire, Reddish grew and developed rapidly during the Industrial Revolution and still retains landmarks from that period, such as Houldsworth Mill, a former textile mill.

Reddish Vale is a country park close to the locality.

Reddish (disambiguation)

Reddish is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in Greater Manchester, England.

Reddish may also refer to:

  • 2884 Reddish, a main-belt asteroid
  • Jack Reddish (1926-1992), American alpine skier
  • Reddish House in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, England
  • Tim Reddish, (born 1957), British Paralympic swimmer
  • wikt:reddish, a color

Usage examples of "reddish".

With hydrochloric acid, logwood ink marks turn reddish or reddish-gray, alizarin marks greenish, and aniline ink marks reddish or brownish-gray.

Garth Breise asked, bending low to inspect the source of the strange movement: a swarm of reddish brown beetles.

The energy of the forge was what he would have called honest chaos, without the reddish overshades of the chaos-fire spewed forth by the white wizards.

In the dim reddish glow of the fire I saw the large form of the woman stretched out on a palliasse before the hearth.

Titan, the second largest moon in the solar system, has a thick atmosphere that manifests as a reddish brown photochemical haze.

Clutching its prize to the puff of reddish fur on its chest, it watched Aleytys gravely as she plodded closer, then with a flirt of a plumy tail, it vanished down the far side of the hillock.

The reddish light was a scanning function, combining the spheres of Life and Prime to check for extra Quintessence stored in the patterns of the people below.

The deep violet-red wove down the edges in a scalloped pattern that mixed with white and purple, and was edged on one side with a reddish brown, like a braid of auburn hair laid across all that golden tan.

The scalloped line of colors flowed down the edge of the rear wings as it did the frontred-violet, white, purple, and reddish brown tracing the edge of all his wings downward past the brilliance of pink and orange to spill on long curved tails so that that last grace of wing was thick with dark stripes of color.

PRACTICAL WORK The reddish muscle found in a piece of beef is a good example of striated muscle.

Using reddish outlines, he lays in washes of ochre, highlighted with white when the underpainting is dry.

A sighting of the enormous, unpredictable rhinos, with two horns, the front one long and low-slung, and two coats of reddish fur, a soft downy underwool and an outer layer of long guard hair, always brought exclamations of wonder.

Earth was new again, a dim reddish disk beside the blazing sun, Karpal rose to his feet and swung his arms cautiously, checking that none of his actuators had been weakened by thermal stress.

The girl with the large eyes was named Alberta James, and she sat third in from the left Weigand, facing everybody - he hoped - who had been in the theatre when Carney Bolton was killed ticked off her name in his mind Slender girl with reddish - brown hair hanging almost to her shoulders, and big, disturbing eyes - that equalled Alberta James.

He read another story in the sand, and one spot of reddish color--blood--on the slender white stalk of arrowweed, a heavy furrow, and then a line of demarcation through the green to the river--these added a sinister nature to the abduction of Roseta Uvalde.