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rubific

rubific adjective: reddening, making red.

Adjective

rubific (comparative more rubific, superlative most rubific)

  1. (obsolete) reddening, making red.
    • The silent skies with strange fire, like a dawn Rubific1868, Robert Williams Buchanan, David Gray and other Essays, chiefly on Poetry

Forms of rubific

comparativemore rubific
superlativemost rubific

Origin of rubific

From Latin ruber (“red”) + facere (“to make”).

Questions about rubific

What does rubific mean?
Rubific means reddening, making red.
What part of speech is rubific?
Rubific is an adjective.

Words near rubific in the dictionary

  1. rubidus
  2. rubiduses
  3. rubied
  4. rubies
  5. rubiest
  6. rubific
  7. rubification
  8. rubifications
  9. rubified
  10. rubifies
  11. rubiform

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