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

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as in pink

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• 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

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as in embarrassed

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• 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

Phrases Containing blush

• first blush