flame-orange
- adjective
- She wore a flame-orange dress that stood out against the muted colors of the crowd.
Examples
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"Scattered through a crowd of a thousand were less than a hundred hats, all on children between five and ten, all flame orange with a wide brim for protection against the sun and against looking up.
Fiction book (2001) -
The sunset painted the sky in beautiful shades of flame-orange, blending with hints of crimson.
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The flame-orange leaves of the maple tree created a stunning contrast with the deep blue sky.
Synonyms
Having the color between red and yellow like ripe citrus fruit
A reddish orange color like the skin of a ripe fruit
A little like the color orange
A color like orange but more red
A color that looks a little like orange between red and yellow
Having the color of a ripe orange
Having a bright orange-red color like fire
A color like orange with a little red
An orange color that looks more red than yellow
Having the color of a ripe orange
Antonyms
How Orange
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Flame-orange comes from flame ('the bright part of a fire') and orange (the fruit that gives the color 'orange'). So it means a bright orange with a touch of red, like the color of fire.