flush

⁵flush

adj

Definition of FLUSH

1

a : of a ruddy healthy color b : full of life and vigor : lusty

2

a : filled to overflowing b : affluent

3

: readily available : abundant

4

a : having or forming a continuous plane or unbroken surface <flush paneling> b : directly abutting or immediately adjacent: as (1) : set even with an edge of a type page or column : having no indention (2) : arranged edge to edge so as to fit snugly

— flush·ness noun

Examples of FLUSH

1. He just got paid and he was feeling flush.
2. <was flushed after getting out of the hot bath>

First Known Use of FLUSH

circa 1568

Related to FLUSH

Synonyms: blooming, florid, ruddy, full-blooded, glowing, red, rosy, rubicund, sanguine

Antonyms: ashen, ashy, doughy, livid, lurid, mealy, pale, paled, palish, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, sallow, sallowish, wan

Related Words: bronzed, brown, suntanned, tanned; bloomy, blowsy (also blowzy), blushing, flushed, pink, pinkish, warm; cherubic

Near Antonyms: waxen, waxy; blanched, white, whitened; anemic, sick, sickly; bloodless, cadaverous; whey-faced, white-faced

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