ruddily

In flushed manner

In a ruddy manner—with a healthy reddish glow or flush.

The adverb typically describes complexion or coloring: His face shone ruddily in the firelight.

Like ruddy itself, ruddily suggests warmth and vigor rather than mere redness.

complexion

flushed

Reddened from emotion

red-faced · florid · blooming · sun-kissed · windburned · weathered · apple-cheeked

health

vitality

Capacity for spirited existence

vigorously · hale · hardy · thriving · blooming · wholesomely · soundly · lustily · energetically · vibrantly

warmth

glowing

Giving off steady light

warmly · hotly · overheated · fierily

Opposites
complexion color/health appearance

ruddilypalely

In colorless manner

pallidly · cadaverously · wanly · whitely · ghostly

Family

ruddiness, ruddiest, ruddier

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