pinkish-orange
- adjective
- /ˈpɪŋkɪʃ ˈɔrɪndʒ/
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naranja rosado
- The large corona of Cool Flame is a soft pinkish-orange; the perianth segments are white.
Examples
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Its abundant blossoms open pale orange and soon turn a strangely luminous pinkish-orange.
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In the fall, the leaves turned pinkish orange and fell.
Fiction book (1991) -
But it is Claudia who hunts down and eats every pinkish-orange cube, even the ones that are a little fuzzy from the bedspread, slapping my hand when I go for one.
Fiction book (1994) -
In the fall, the leaves turned pinkish-orange and fell.
Synonyms
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1.4
A deep pink or orange-pink color
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2.7
A pale pinkish orange color like a ripe peach
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A light pink color with a little orange in it
A color between pink and orange
A pale pinkish orange color like a ripe peach
With a pale pinkish orange color like the fish meat
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Etymology
Pinkish-orange comes from three parts you already know: pink (a soft red named after a flower), orange (the color named from the fruit), and the ending -ish which means 'somewhat' or 'like', so the word describes a color that is 'somewhat' between pink and orange.