Ruddy

Quick meaning: Ruddy is an adjective meaning Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.

Meaning

Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.

More Meanings

1. Robust and vigorous, like a person with a red complexion (as compared to a pale one).
2. (British, Australia, slang, not comparable) A mild intensifier, expressing irritation.
3. (British, slang) A mild intensifier, expressing irritation.
4. (informal) A ruddy duck.
5. (informal) A ruddy ground dove.
6. (transitive) To make reddish in colour.

Example Sentences

in ruddy health

Michael, you have been sitting on your butt for the last two hours! Why didn't you mow the ruddy lawn?!!

Drystone walls, farm buildings and stone cottages, roofed with ruddy tiles, line the way and blend gently into the surrounding countryside.

A silvery cloud drifted over the mountains that surrounded him, its edges glowing with ruddy light cast from the harvest moon cradled between two peaks.

Word Forms

• ruddier
• ruddiest
• ruddies
• ruddying
• ruddied

Synonyms for ruddy

Depending on context, synonyms include rosy, bally, bleeding, blimming, bloody, blooming.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rubicund, red, crimson, scarlet, cerise, carmine.

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