tanned
- adjective
- /tænd/
- 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.
- Neon colors look great when you are super tanned, warm, undertoned.
- So let us transition to a more tanned me.
- And this gives you a much more tanned look when you get this area quite bronze.
- So I'm I've just realised I'm way too tan to look like Belle Delphine.
- So works great on tan skin, great over fake tan.
- It's good because I don't get tanned, so please, I get red.
Examples
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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.
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By the way, coral looks amazing on tanned, like darker skin.
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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
Skin that is light brown from being in the sun
Having brown or golden skin after being in the sun
Skin that is darker because of being in the sun, for example on the face or arms
Antonyms
How Tanned
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.