incarnadine

Flushed with red

Incarnadine means flesh-colored or pinkish-red, though its most famous use reversed this toward blood-red.

In Shakespeare's *Macbeth*, the guilty king imagines his bloody hands will incarnadine the multitudinous seas—turn the ocean red.

The word now carries that literary, blood-stained association more than its original flesh-tone meaning.

Rare outside literary contexts.

redshades

scarlet

Bright orangish-red color

crimsonDeep purplish-red shade
rubyPrecious red gemstone
carmineDeep red from insects

vermilion · cerise · cardinal · garnet · maroon · burgundy · claret · cherry · cinnabar · pomegranate

bloodstain

crimson

Deep purplish-red shade

scarletBright orangish-red color
sanguineCheerfully optimistic temperament
goryFull of bloodshed

bloody · stained · dyed · tinted · suffused · hands · guilt · murder · violence · smeared

fleshpink

blush

Facial reddening from emotion

rosyPinkly warm or hopeful
roseatePink-hued or hopeful
ruddyReddish in complexion

flushed · pinkish · salmon · peach · coral · warm · glowing · suffused · tinted · complexion

Opposites

color/hue

incarnadineblanch

Scald briefly, then cool

whiten · pale · pallid · bleach · wan

blood/vitality symbolism

incarnadineblanched

Made white by heat

exsanguinate · pallid · deathly pale · bloodless · cadaverous

Family

carnal, incarnate, carnation, carnations, carnally

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