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Of the colour of a hyacinth (either the gem or the flower); reddish-gold (chiefly with reference to hair)..
His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks / Round from his parted forelock manly hung / Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:
[…] the nicest young man that ever was, — daintily gloved, patently booted, oilily curled, snowily wristbanded, with a lovely cambric (prima facie) handkerchief bound about his hyacinthine locks and polished hat.
The beautiful boy has flowing or richly textured hyacinthine hair, the only luxuriance in this chastity.
Use hyacinthine when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hyacinthine means Of the colour of a hyacinth (either the gem or the flower); reddish-gold (chiefly with reference to hair)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks / Round from his parted forelock manly hung / Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:
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