ruddy

ruddy

adjective

Definition of RUDDY

having a healthy reddish skin tone <ruddy complexions run in the family>

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

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

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