🌳 A fruit tree 🍊 A sweet fruit 🟧 Orange-red color

persimmon

6.3

A warm orange-red colour like ripe fruit

adjective
/pərˈsɪmən/

: color caqui

If you design a great blouse, you should offer it in blue, in Persimmon and in Navy.

Examples

If you design a great blouse, you should offer it in blue, in Persimmon and in Navy.
Her dress was a stunning shade of persimmon, perfect for autumn.
I'd like to actually enjoy something persimmon made properly.

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The artist chose a warm persimmon color for the sunset in her painting.
The living room was decorated in persimmon accents that added warmth to the space.

Synonyms

orange

vspersimmon

577 1.0

Having the color between red and yellow like ripe citrus fruit

is a warmer more red tinted shade within that basic color

tangerine

vspersimmon

4 2.3

A reddish orange color like the skin of a ripe fruit

is deeper and warmer in tone with stronger red influence

reddish-orange

vspersimmon

2.3

A color like orange with a little red

is a warmer richer orange red tone rather than a slight red tinge

Idioms

to feel like the huckleberry above a persimmon

Informal

9.9

Think you are more important or special than other people

huckleberry above a persimmon

Archaic

9.9

A person who acts like they are better than other people

Compounds

persimmon tree

1 6.4

A tree that grows sweet orange fruit eaten in autumn

American persimmon

8.6

A medium tree from eastern and southern United States that makes orange fruit that are sour until fully ripe

Japanese persimmon

7.1

A small tree that grows large orange fruit people eat when ripe

How Orange

orange

577 1.0

persimmon

6.3

apricot

6 1.7

peach

21 1.0

Surface Forms

persimmon positive

Etymology

The color name persimmon comes from the ripe fruit of the same name. Think of a ripe persimmon to remember the warm orange-red shade that the word describes.