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reddish

/ˈɹɛdɪʃ/

reddish adjective: somewhat red.

Adjective

reddish (comparative more reddish, superlative most reddish)

  1. Somewhat red.
    • "Chocolate and cream," the standard colours of G.W.R. rolling stock for 21 years, are now being replaced by an all-over utility coating of reddish-brown. This is the third time that a uniform brown has been adopted as the standard livery of G.W.R. carriages.1943 March and April, “G.W.R. Rolling Stock Colours”, in Railway Magazine, page 106
    • Although the track is ballasted, it does not prevent clouds of reddish dust from the laterite soil blowing about when the train is in motion; after a journey with the windows open a bath is a necessity!1948 September and October, W. S. Darby, “The Gold Coast Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 287

Proper noun capitalized: Reddish

Reddish (countable and uncountable, plural Reddishes)

  1. A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8993).
  2. An unincorporated community in Richwood Township, Jersey County, Illinois, United States.
  3. A surname.

reddish meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Kannada and Sanskrit

reddish in Hindi

somewhat red
रक्ताभ raktābh, लोहित lohit

reddish in Marathi

somewhat red
लालसर lālsar

reddish in Kannada

ಅರೆಕೆಂಪು, ಕೆಂಚು, ಕೆಂದು, ಕೆಚ್ಚನೆ

reddish in Sanskrit

reddish, reddish-brown or reddish-yellow, tawny
पिशङ्ग piśáṅga
a reddish or a ruddy doe
रोहित् rohít
reddish, red
फल्गु phalgú

Examples of reddish in a sentence

  • Most of the older buildings are of reddish-brown ironstone with mossy-tiled roofs, and almost all have stone-embanked gardens, richly planted and expertly maintained.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 374, about Tealby:
  • At 6ft 5in, and with the sparse reddish beard he nowadays sports, he has the charmingly awkward aspect of a teen who has recently put on a growth spurt and hasn’t quite settled into himself.2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian...

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Synonyms of reddish

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Forms of reddish

Adjective
comparativemore reddish
superlativemost reddish
Proper noun
pluralReddishes

Origin of reddish

From Middle English redisch; equivalent to red + -ish.

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Questions about reddish

What does reddish mean?
Reddish means somewhat red.
What is reddish in Hindi?
Reddish in Hindi is रक्ताभ (raktābh), लोहित (lohit). See Reddish meaning in Hindi.
How do you use reddish in a sentence?
Most of the older buildings are of reddish-brown ironstone with mossy-tiled roofs, and almost all have stone-embanked gardens, richly planted and expertly maintained.
What part of speech is reddish?
Reddish can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce reddish?
Reddish is pronounced /ˈɹɛdɪʃ/.

Words near reddish in the dictionary

  1. Reddington
  2. Reddingtons
  3. Reddins
  4. reddiquette
  5. Reddis
  6. reddish
  7. reddish egret
  8. reddish egrets
  9. reddish green
  10. reddish-brown
  11. reddish-green

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reddish (page history and authors); Reddish (page history and authors); reddish (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); पिशङ्ग (Sanskrit) (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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