Synonyms of blush

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noun

ˈbləsh 

as in color

a rosy appearance (of the cheeks)

a baby with a healthy blush

Synonyms & Similar Words

• color
• glow
• brightness
• bloom
• flush
• pinkness
• brilliance
• redness
• reddishness
• rosiness
• ruddiness
• sanguineness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pallor
• paleness
• whiteness
• pastiness
• wanness
• sallowness
• greenness
• pallidness
• greenishness

blush

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verb (1)

as in to glow

to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)

she blushed when she realized she had walked into the boys' bathroom by mistake

Synonyms & Similar Words

• glow
• flush
• crimson
• redden
• bloom
• turn color
• color
• rouge
• incarnadine
• humiliate
• ruddle
• embarrass
• faze
• disconcert
• mortify
• abash
• discomfit
• chagrin

blushing

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adjective

1

as in pink

Related Words

• pink
• pinkish
• flushed
• brown
• blowsy
• warm
• tanned
• bronzed
• suntanned
• bloomy
• ruddy
• red
• blooming
• rosy
• cherubic
• sanguine
• florid
• glowing
• rubicund
• flush
• full-blooded

Dissimilar Words

• pale
• pallid
• sallow
• ashen
• livid
• wan
• lurid
• pasty
• ashy
• doughy
• mealy
• palish
• white
• peaked
• waxen
• waxy
• blanched
• peaky
• paled
• whitened
• sickly
• sallowish
• sick
• anemic
• bloodless
• cadaverous
• white-faced
• whey-faced

2

as in embarrassed

Related Words

• embarrassed
• sheepish
• chagrined
• penitential
• hangdog
• culpable
• blameworthy
• apologetic
• regretful
• ashamed
• remorseful
• guilty
• rueful
• penitent
• repentant
• shamefaced
• contrite
• blamable
• sorry
• compunctious
• shamed

Dissimilar Words

• shameless
• unashamed
• unrepentant
• impudent
• remorseless
• brazen
• cheeky
• innocent
• blameless
• unapologetic
• impenitent
• guiltless

blushing

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verb (2)

present participle of blush

as in glowing

to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)

she blushed when she realized she had walked into the boys' bathroom by mistake

Synonyms & Similar Words

• glowing
• flushing
• reddening
• blooming
• crimsoning
• turning color
• coloring
• rouging
• mortifying
• humiliating
• embarrassing
• disconcerting
• ruddling
• incarnadining
• abashing
• discomfiting
• fazing
• chagrining

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of blush

Noun

From an iconic foundation achieving new levels of perfection to the first-ever setting powder–blush hybrid, our winners are ushering in a new generation of cult-favorites. —Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2026

The short synthetic bristles help apply foundation, blush and highlighter smoothly, without streaks or shedding. —Bestreviews, Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2026

Verb

Scattering the shrimp on top just for the last 5 or 10 minutes gives it enough time to blush pink without overcooking. —The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026

Still, there is one explicit scene in the erotic dramedy that ended up getting shortened — but not to spare blushing audiences. —Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026

Adjective

Inspired by 2003's Kill Bill, the Western-themed music video opens in a church, with Cardi starring as a blushing bride, with glowy skin and a head full of platinum blond strands blowing in the wind. —Helena Yeung, Teen Vogue, 22 May 2018

Much like the blushing bride, the six young bridesmaids walked down the aisle in dresses designed by Givenchy‘s Clare Waight Keller, according to a palace statement. —Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 19 May 2018

Verb

Weaving reprises Grace MacCaullay, the blushing bride who was forced to lay waste to her wealthy new in-laws during their sadistic rendition of hide-and-seek. —Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 Jan. 2026

Timid, pious, and empathic to a fault, the heroine of Mansfield Park spends a good deal of time trembling and blushing. —Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026

Phrases Containing blush

• first blush