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orange-hued

orange-hued

3.6
Having the color of a ripe orange
  • adjective
  • /ˈɔrɪndʒ-hjud/
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  • She wore a lovely dress that had an orange-hued fabric, reminiscent of ripe oranges.

It's a mood setter because if you turn, if you black out your room and you just turn the lamp on, it's like that cool little orange hue.

Examples

  • Above the black chimneys, a curly auroral cloud loomed like an orange-hued mountain, and beyond it, a second and a third.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • The sunset cast an orange-hued glow over the ocean waves.

  • The artist used an orange-hued paint to create the warm atmosphere in her landscape.

Synonyms

orange
vsorange-hued
577 1.0

Having the color between red and yellow like ripe citrus fruit

describes having that exact tint rather than a naming label
orangey
vsorange-hued
  • Informal
2 3.6

A little like the color orange

means having the clear ripe fruit tint rather than a slight shade
orange-colored
vsorange-hued
1 1.0

Having the color of a ripe orange

is the simple descriptive phrase for having that tint
orangish
vsorange-hued
1 4.0

A color that looks a little like orange between red and yellow

is the focused tint of ripe fruit rather than a vague resemblance
yellowish-orange
vsorange-hued
1 3.0

A colour between yellow and orange, like a sunset

is the pure ripe fruit tint without extra yellow tinge
yellow-orange
vsorange-hued
1 1.9

A color between yellow and orange, like a sunset

is the ripe fruit tint without a notable yellow mix
carroty
vsorange-hued
7.0

A bright orange color like a carrot often used to describe hair

is the general ripe fruit tint rather than this intense hair color

How Orange

orange-hued
3.6

Surface Forms

orange-hued positive

Morphology

orange-hued = orange + hued (transparent) = orange + hue + ed

Formed from 'orange' + 'hued' (hue + -ed) meaning 'having an orange hue', a directly predictable colour description for learners.

Etymology

The word orange-hued joins orange, the fruit name that became the name of the color, and hued from hue, meaning 'color' or 'shade'. So it simply means 'having the color of an orange'.