Skin, Colouring, and Complexion Flashcards
having healthily reddish skin
ruddy, rosy-cheeked, apple-cheeked, rubicund, rubescent
having smooth skin
lustrous, unwrinkled, soft-skinned, shining, glowing, glabrous, flawless
having wrinkles
wrinkled, rugose
having large pores
large pored, grainy
having aged skin
withered, shrivelled, dried up, wizen, like parchment, puckered, cracked, shrunken
having weathered skin
tough, leathery, leathern
having freckles
freckled, lenticular
having small spots or discolourations
mottled, blotchy, splotchy, splodgy (British)
having warts
warty, verrucose
having pockmarks
pockmarked, pocked, pitted
pimply
papuliferous, eruptive
having sores or lesions
ulcerated, broken
oily
greasy
pale
pallid, wan, chalky, pasty, blanched, etiolated, peaked, whey-faced
dark
swart, swarthy, dark-complexioned
white
alabaster, pearly, creamy, porcelain, milk white, translucent, light
brown
cocoa, chocolate, coffee
black
coal black, ebony
greyish blue
livid
yellowish
sallow, waxen, jaundiced, waxlike, parchment-coloured tallow-hued
reddish
ruddy, raw, blowzy, flushed, suffused
blushing
flushing, mantled
sunburned
sunburnt, tan, bronzed, brown, coppery
reddish brown
liverish
bluish
cyanotic
black and blue
livid
spotted in colouring
mottled, blotched, liver-spotted