reddened

Other forms of reddened

comparative

reddenedder·

superlative

reddeneddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reddened

What does reddened mean?

reddened means "(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reddened?

reddened has 2 syllables: red-dened. The stress falls on "red".

What is another word for reddened?

Close synonyms include crimson, red, red-faced, flushed, ablaze. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reddened a common word?

reddened is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.