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RUBICUND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rubicund mean?
• RUBICUND (adjective)
The adjective RUBICUND has 1 sense:
1. inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life
Familiarity information: RUBICUND used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life
Synonyms:
florid; rubicund; ruddy; sanguine
Context example:
a fresh and sanguine complexion
Similar:
healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)
Context examples
So the throng moved on, until at the very gate it was brought to a stand by a wondrously fat man, who came darting forth from the town with rage in every feature of his rubicund face.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He soon returned, greatly improved in appearance; but so rubicund, that I couldn't help thinking his face had this in common with the lobsters, crabs, and crawfish,—that it went into the hot water very black, and came out very red.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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