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tangerine

tangerine

1 3.5
Having a strong reddish orange color like ripe fruit skin
  • adjective
  • /ˌtæn.dʒəˈrin/
translation icon : mandarina
  • And I'm also looking at Fuego flush which is a soft tangerine with shimmer that sounds marvellous.

It's beautiful, it's bright, it's juicy, it's tangerine and I hope you guys check it out.

Examples

  • Shana then pulled out a tube of lipstick, tangerine pink, and carefully applied it to her lips.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • I'm a tangerine belt, orange belt.

  • It's beautiful, it's bright, it's juicy, it's tangerine and I hope you guys check it out.

  • He would not move out of my seat and I and I was I was in a beautiful tangerine dress.

  • Well, it certainly will be explosively tangerine.

  • If you would change your skin color any unnatural color tangerine you don't like your people.

  • Pop Rocks in a tangerine mojito sorbet.

  • However, I must be considerate of my shapely, tangerine-breasted next-door neighbor Susan Bayer.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • The sunset painted the sky in a stunning shade of tangerine as the day came to a close.

  • She chose a tangerine dress for the summer party, hoping to stand out in the crowd.

Synonyms

orange
vstangerine
577 1.0

Having the color between red and yellow like ripe citrus fruit

has a stronger red cast than that basic mid color
orangey
vstangerine
  • Informal
2 3.6

A little like the color orange

has a much stronger red influence than this faint warmth
orange-red
vstangerine
1 2.0

A color that is between orange and red

has more visible yellow warmth and less pure red
orange-colored
vstangerine
1 1.0

Having the color of a ripe orange

has a deeper red tone compared with that plain fruit color
orangish
vstangerine
1 4.0

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

has a stronger clear red presence than that mild similarity
reddish-orange
vstangerine
2.3

A color like orange with a little red

has a stronger red tint making the color deeper and richer
orange-hued
vstangerine
3.6

Having the color of a ripe orange

has a stronger red tint rather than a mere hint
carroty
vstangerine
7.0

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

has a noticeable red boost rather than pure bright warmth

Compounds

A small evergreen tree that produces sweet orange fruit like mandarins

How Vivid

tangerine
1 3.5
orange
577 1.0

Surface Forms

tangerine positive

Etymology

To call something tangerine is to say it has the strong reddish-'orange' color of a ripe tangerine fruit.