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ruddy
Synonyms and Antonyms 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
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