coppery
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4.9
- adjective
- /ˈkɑːpəri/
:
cobrizo
- He admired the coppery color of the new roof, which matched the rustic style of the house.
- coppery hair
- coppery taste
- coppery skin
This one is more of a coppery bronze shade and that is called Cub.
- This one is more of a coppery bronze shade and that is called Cub.
- This like rusty coppery brown kind of color.
- It's like a sparkly kind of coppery, bronzy color and I am just obsessed with this.
Examples
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The artist chose a coppery hue for the leaves in her painting, capturing the warmth of autumn.
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The rays of the afternoon sun filtering through the buildup of clouds gave the desert a coppery tint.
Fiction book (1999) -
And I want to use this like this coppery shade here.
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This like rusty coppery brown kind of color.
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In the coppery orange light, they sit on adjacent sides of a square table.
Fiction book (1998) -
And this is just a beautiful coppery bronze shade.
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It's this gorgeous coppery bronze colour.
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Here's a beautiful coppery brown with orange undertones.
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The oldest of the three, she had a willowy neck and coppery skin, and a graceful way of moving.
Fiction book (1991) -
With the light behind her, her hair made a coppery nimbus around her face; she looked, somehow, contentedly aflame.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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2.1
A brown color with a hint of red
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3.4
A red-brown color like copper
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1.0
A brown color with a touch of red
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2.8
A brown color with a red tint like old metal left outside
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6.9
Having a shiny brown or gold color like an old coin
A reddish-brown metal-like color similar to copper
A reddish-brown hair color like copper
A red color with a brown, shiny look like copper
A brown color with a red-orange tone
Having a brownish-gold metal color
A bright orange-brown color like some hair or fur
Antonyms
How Reddish-Brown
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word coppery comes from the metal copper, a name that first came from the island Cyprus where people first dug the metal long ago. Think of the shiny, reddish-brown metal, and that's why coppery means having a warm, 'reddish-brown' color.