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honey

honey

3.0
A light golden brown color like the sweet liquid bees make
  • adjective
  • /ˈhʌni/
translation icon : color miel
  • The walls of the room were painted a soft honey color, creating a warm atmosphere.

My two favorite shades are Honey Beige and pinky brown.

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Examples

  • We're going to do the like honey blonde, warm brown, light brown.

  • I think it was like honey beige or light honey.

  • Like I said, she looks red honey, very orange.

  • This is in the shade medium tan honey and I also got the brush.

  • I actually mixed the like honey tan color and the plum.

  • This is medium tan honey in the matte version.

  • It is like a honey vanilla bourbon.

  • She chose a honey shade for her hair that complemented her skin tone beautifully.

  • The sunset cast a honey glow over the city, making everything appear golden.

Synonyms

honey-colored
vshoney
2 2.8

A color that is yellowish brown like honey

is the shorter term for the same color
honeylike
vshoney
4.0

A thing that has the colour, feel, or taste of honey

refers only to the color rather than other qualities

Idioms

A humorous way to say you find a woman extremely attractive

9.9

Act very bravely and without backing down

Say nice words you do not mean to get something from someone

Compounds

3 1.4

A sweet sticky pastry like a spiral roll flavored with honey and cinnamon

A color that is yellowish brown like honey

1 2.5

A sweet spicy cake made with honey that people eat at holidays

Africanized honey bee
  • Specialized
1 7.2

A honey bee bred from African and European bees that is very aggressive and spreads across the Americas

honey badger
  • Slang
1 8.2

A tough, brave person who keeps trying even in danger

honey badger
  • Indian
1 7.6

A strong, fierce mammal from Africa and southern Asia that hunts at night and breaks into beehives

honey do list
  • Informal
1 8.6

A list of small jobs one partner asks the other to do at home

1 8.6

A tall North American tree with long twisted seed pods and hard reddish-brown wood

A form of honey in which part of the sugar has formed small crystals, making it thick or solid

A plant that lives for many years with bright yellow flowers that attract bees and butterflies

7.9

An animal from tropical America that lives in trees and uses its long tail to hold branches while eating fruit

honey bell
  • South African
9.9

A small African shrub with long hanging stems and yellow flowers that smell sweet

9.3

A tropical American tree that bears small sweet juicy fruits with green skin

honey bucket
  • Informal
9.1

A portable toilet used outdoors when there is no plumbing

A large hunting bird that eats young bees and small animals like mice and lizards

A thin hard sweet made with honey that breaks easily

honey eater
  • Australian
8.8

A bird that uses a long thin beak to drink nectar from flowers

An edible mushroom with honey-colored caps that grows at tree bases and must be cooked before eating

honey fungus
  • Specialized
7.0

A very large fungus made of connected underground parts that spreads and kills trees

honey gland
  • Specialized
7.7

A small part of a plant or animal that makes a sweet liquid to attract insects like bees

honey guide
  • Indian
9.6

A small African and Asian bird that eats honey and wax from bees and leads people to bee nests

honey hole
  • Informal
8.3

A place where many good things are found, often a favorite fishing spot

A thorny small tree with deep roots that makes sweet pods eaten by farm animals

A honey-colored edible mushroom that grows near tree roots in late summer and autumn and must be cooked before eating

A plant that makes sweet liquid bees use to make honey

honey-flower
  • Australian
9.1

An Australian shrub with groups of sweet flowers that attract bees and birds

To speak in a sweet, flattering way to hide real intentions

Dark sweet spread made by bees from sticky drops on leaves with a strong rich taste

Having the sweet smell of honey

A thing that is very sweet and makes you feel happy

A thorny small tree with deep roots that grows in dry areas and has sweet pods used as animal feed

How Golden

golden
118 1.0
amber
1 3.8
honey
3.0
tawny
8 6.0
pale
291 1.0

Surface Forms

honey positive

Etymology

Honey for a light golden brown comes from the warm color of real honey, the yellow-brown liquid bees make. So a 'honey' colour means that same warm, golden-brown shade.