reddish-striped
3.8
Having red or slightly red stripes
- adjective
- He wore a reddish-striped shirt that caught everyone's attention.
Examples
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The reddish-striped fish blended in perfectly with the corals.
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The artist painted a landscape featuring reddish-striped mountains at sunset.
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Her reddish-striped sari flicked around high-heeled boots.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
red-striped
vsreddish-striped
It has red stripes in its pattern
allows stripes to be only somewhat red rather than clearly red
red-streaked
vsreddish-striped
4.2
It has red lines across its surface
describes markings that are broader and more band like than thin lines
How Red
red-striped
1
2.3
reddish-striped
3.8
Surface Forms
reddish-striped positive
Morphology
Etymology
Reddish-striped combines reddish, made from red and -ish which means 'somewhat red', and striped, from stripe meaning 'long line'. Think of a shirt or a caterpillar with long red lines — that's why reddish-striped means 'having stripes that are red or somewhat red'.