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Antonyms for pink

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : pingk
Phonetic Transcription : pɪŋk

Definition of pink

Origin :
  • 1570s, common name of Dianthus, a garden plant of various colors, of unknown origin. Its use for "pale rose color" first recorded 1733 (pink-coloured is recorded from 1680s), from one of the colors of the flowers. The plant name is perhaps from pink (v.) via notion of "perforated" petals, or from Dutch pink "small" (see pinkie), from the term pinck oogen "half-closed eyes," literally "small eyes," which was borrowed into English (1570s) and may have been used as a name for Dianthus, which sometimes has pale red flowers.
  • The flower meaning led (by 1590s) to a figurative use for "the flower" or finest example of anything (e.g. Mercutio's "Nay, I am the very pinck of curtesie," Rom. & Jul. II.iv.61). Political noun sense "person perceived as left of center but not entirely radical (i.e. red)" is attested by 1927, but the image dates to at least 1837. Pink slip "discharge notice" is first recorded 1915. To see pink elephants "hallucinate from alcoholism" first recorded 1913 in Jack London's "John Barleycorn."
  • noun rose color
  • noun best condition
  • verb cut in zigzag
Example sentences :
  • One-half of the pink roses were on the table, and one from the other half was in her hair.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • By the way, you are not acquainted with the pink room, I think?
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • It was strewn with pink buds; some just opening into beauty, some half-blown.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • The bed was a marvel of pink and white drapery; so was the dressing-bureau.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • The bones of lamb are pink, while those of mutton are white.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • At the impetuous outflinging of her hands, the floor was strewn with pink petals.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • Probably he was the kind of man that the name sounded like; a dude with pink cheeks.
  • Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
  • "Oh, it's just like a pink story," she cried, clapping her hands.
  • Extract from : « The Little Colonel » by Annie Fellows Johnston
  • We stuffed the pink dainties with mint, and baked them in balls of clay.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • If she had been pink first and white afterward, I should have been alarmed.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson

Synonyms for pink

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