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1. Inclined to a healthy reddish colour often associated with outdoor life
   "a ruddy complexion"
   - rubicund, florid, sanguine
    
2. Of a colour at the end of the colour spectrum (next to orange); resembling the colour of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
   - red, reddish, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet, reddy

Derived forms: ruddier, ruddiest

See also: chromatic, healthy, ruddiness

Encyclopedia: Ruddy