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orangy

orangy is the alternative spelling of orangey.

Meaning of orangey

Adjective

orangey (comparative orangier, superlative orangiest)

  1. Somewhat orange in colour.
    • The curtains were wide open, and the rich orangey sunset drowned everything in evening colour.2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 95
  2. Resembling, or flavoured with, oranges (the fruit).

See all 4 meanings of orangey

Forms of orangy

comparativeorangier
superlativeorangiest

Questions about orangy

What is orangy the alternative spelling of?
Orangy is the alternative spelling of orangey.

Words near orangy in the dictionary

  1. orangutan
  2. orangutang
  3. orangutangs
  4. orangutanlike
  5. orangutans
  6. orangy
  7. Orani
  8. Orania
  9. Oranian
  10. Oranians
  11. Oranje

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orangy (page history and authors); orangey (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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