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🟥 Reddish color 🏞️ Like a lake
laky

laky

9.9
A reddish purple color like deep pink
  • adjective
: color lacustre
  • Her dress was a beautiful, laky color that stood out at the party.

Examples

  • The sunset painted the sky a beautiful laky hue.

  • The flowers had a subtle laky tint that made them unique.

  • The painter used a laky shade to capture the evening sky.

  • Her dress had a laky shade that caught everyone's eye.

  • The sunset painted the sky a beautiful laky hue.

  • Her dress was a beautiful, laky color that stood out at the party.

  • The flowers had a subtle laky tint that made them unique.

Synonyms

ruddy
vslaky
11 5.3

Having a healthy red color, often on the face or cheeks

describes a pigmentlike red to purplish color rather than skin tone

Antonyms

colorless
  • US
13 2.9

Having very little or no color

neutral
7 3.0

A color like gray or beige that has no strong hue

How Deep

vivid
42 3.0
deep
153 3.1
laky
9.9
soft
254 1.0
pale
301 1.0

Surface Forms

laky positive

Morphology

laky = lake (opaque) = lake + y

The adjective derives from 'lake' in the technical sense of a dye/pigment, a specialized/archaic sense of 'lake' that most learners will not know, so the colour meaning is not transparently derivable.

Etymology

Laky comes from lake, which also names a red-purple paint called a 'lake'. So laky means 'like that deep red or purple' used in art, which helps you remember the color sense.