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tanned

tanned

11 1.0
Skin made darker by spending time in the sun
  • adjective
  • /tænd/
translation icon : bronceado
  • After a week at the beach, her skin became beautifully tanned from the sun.
  • tanned man

Neon colors look great when you are super tanned, warm, undertoned.

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Examples

  • Her body was like a dream, long and lush and tanned as golden as a peach.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Long, golden hair, a round face that sets off her deep blue eyes, a tanned, curving body.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • But like you are much more tanned than me.

  • By the way, coral looks amazing on tanned, like darker skin.

  • My beard and my tanned skin help make the lie even more convincing.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • The face in the photo was lean, tanned, and smiling slightly with lips closed.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • The man is handsome, tanned, 50ish, wearing a white shirt and a dark tie.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • His hands were gentle, darkly tanned, and wide at the palm.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • The woman wore an orange tank top that showed to advantage her tanned, shapely shoulders.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • A big, handsome, deeply tanned blond man in a "Hang Ten" shirt and jeans, a surfer.

    Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

bronzed
vstanned
4 2.5

Skin that is light brown from being in the sun

is a broader darkening not limited to light brown tones
suntanned
vstanned
2 1.9

Having brown or golden skin after being in the sun

is used for darker skin without specifying brown or golden shade
browned
vstanned
3.4

Skin that is darker because of being in the sun, for example on the face or arms

is milder and refers to general darkening rather than an intense change

Antonyms

291 1.0

Has very light color and often looks sick or afraid

How Tanned

suntanned
2 1.9
bronzed
4 2.5
tanned
11 1.0
fair
191 1.0
pale
291 1.0

Surface Forms

tanned positive

Morphology

tanned = tan (transparent) = tan + ed

Standard past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'tan' referring to sun-darkening; the form and meaning are directly derived.

Etymology

Tanned for skin color comes from the same idea: sunlight tanning 'darkens' skin much like the leather process, so a person with darker skin after sun is called tanned.