Entry Word: ruddy

Function: adjective

Meaning: having a healthy reddish skin tone <his ruddy complexion runs in the family>

Synonyms blooming, florid, flush, glowing, rosy, rubicund, sanguine

Related Words bronzed, brown, suntanned, tanned; flushed, pink, pinkish, warm; cherubic

Near Antonyms ashen, ashy, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan, waxen, waxy; blanched, white, whitened; anemic, peaked, sick, sickly; bloodless, cadaverous, deathlike