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rubious

rubious adjective: ruby-colored.

Adjective

rubious (comparative more rubious, superlative most rubious)

  1. (rare) Ruby-colored.
    • Dianas lip
      Is not more ſmooth, and rubious: thy ſmall pipe
      Is as the maidens organ, ſhrill, and ſound,
      And all is ſemblatiue a womans part.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • As Shaw became less of the rubious-bearded rebel and more of the Public Institution, reporter-hunted, bore-pursued, the partnership must have been hard work at times.[1948], “[Minds] Bernard Shaw”, in Observer Profiles (Biography Index Reprint Series), Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, published [1970], →OCLC, page 150

rubious meaning in Tamil

rubious in Tamil

செந்நிறமுடைய

Forms of rubious

comparativemore rubious
superlativemost rubious

Origin of rubious

From ruby + -ous.

Questions about rubious

What does rubious mean?
Rubious means ruby-colored.
What is rubious in Tamil?
Rubious in Tamil is செந்நிறமுடைய. See Rubious meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rubious?
Rubious is an adjective.

Words near rubious in the dictionary

  1. Rubinstein syndrome
  2. Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome
  3. rubinylation
  4. Rubio
  5. Rubios
  6. rubious
  7. rubipodanin
  8. rubiretin
  9. rubisco
  10. rubiscolin
  11. rubiscolins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rubious (page history and authors); rubious (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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