complexioned
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6.7
- adjective
- /kəmˈplɛkʃənd/
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de tez
- Lank and dark-complexioned she was, with long black hair.
- dark-complexioned
Examples
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Compact, pale-complexioned, she looked like what she was: the young college professor every male student dreamed of conquering.
Fiction book (1996) -
The keeper was a big, ruddy-complexioned fellow with a scarred face and a ready smile.
Fiction book (1991) -
The nurse, a small, dark-complexioned woman, looked at her and answered quietly, "A girl."
Fiction book (1993) -
I am light-complexioned and light-eyed.
Blog text (20) -
He's what you might call a dark-complexioned chap.
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He was a short, dark-complexioned man, and he chewed on a cigar stub.
Fiction book (1993) -
It was her two children, a boy and a girl, Jeremias and Angustias, both thin, sallow-complexioned, and darkly sad-eyed.
Academic text (2007) -
He is tall, much taller than my grandfather, dark-complexioned, with penetrating blue-green eyes and black hair slicked back from his face.
Fiction book (1996) -
In came an attractive, dark-complexioned lady in a gray suit jacket and black skirt, a black scarf perfectly arranged over a white blouse, her hair a complex, ebony sculpture.
Fiction book (1992) -
The nurse, a small, dark-complexioned woman, looked at her and answered quietly, "A girl."
Synonyms
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3.9
Having a certain kind of skin, for example fair or dark
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2.2
A person who has naturally dark skin
1
4.9
A person with a very pale face because of illness or fear
Someone who has a particular skin colour or shade
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Surface Forms
Morphology
complexioned = complexion (transparent) = complexion + ed
This is a regular adjectival formation from 'complexion', meaning 'having a complexion'.
Etymology
Complexioned comes from complexion, a word that once meant a 'mix' or 'combination' inside the body, and the same root appears in complex, which means 'made of parts'. So complexioned came to mean the color or type of someone's skin because the skin showed that inner 'mix'.