PINK
Dictionary entry overview: What does pink mean?
• PINK (noun)
The noun PINK has 3 senses:
1. a light shade of red
2. any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
3. a person with mildly leftist political views
Familiarity information: PINK used as a noun is uncommon.
• PINK (adjective)
The adjective PINK has 1 sense:
1. of a light shade of red
Familiarity information: PINK used as an adjective is very rare.
• PINK (verb)
The verb PINK has 3 senses:
1. make light, repeated taps on a surface
2. sound like a car engine that is firing too early
3. cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
Familiarity information: PINK used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• PINK (noun)
Meaning:
A light shade of red
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("pink" is a kind of...):
chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pink"):
pinkness (the quality of being pink)
coral (a variable color averaging a deep pink)
apricot; peach; salmon pink; yellowish pink (a shade of pink tinged with yellow)
purplish pink; solferino (a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino)
rose; rosiness (a dusty pink color)
carnation (a pink or reddish-pink color)
Meaning:
Any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
garden pink; pink
Hypernyms ("pink" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pink"):
cottage pink; Dianthus plumarius; grass pink (European pink cultivated for its very fragrant pink or rosy flowers)
button pink; Dianthus latifolius (much-branched pink with flowers in clusters; closely related to sweet William)
cheddar pink; Diangus gratianopolitanus (mat-forming perennial of central Europe with large fragrant pink or red flowers)
Dianthus deltoides; maiden pink (low-growing loosely mat-forming Eurasian pink with a single pale pink flower with a crimson center)
china pink; Dianthus chinensis; rainbow pink (Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual)
carnation; clove pink; Dianthus caryophyllus; gillyflower (Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors)
Dianthus barbatus; sweet William (Eurasian pink widely cultivated for its flat-topped dense clusters of varicolored flowers)
Dianthus supurbus; fringed pink (Eurasian perennial pink having fragrant lilac or rose flowers with deeply fringed margins)
Holonyms ("pink" is a member of...):
Dianthus; genus Dianthus (carnations and pinks)
Meaning:
A person with mildly leftist political views
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
pinko; pink
Hypernyms ("pink" is a kind of...):
collectivist; left-winger; leftist (a person who belongs to the political left)
• PINK (adjective)
Meaning:
Of a light shade of red
Synonyms:
pink; pinkish
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
• PINK (verb)
Meaning:
Make light, repeated taps on a surface
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
pink; rap; knock; tap
Context example:
he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently
Hypernyms (to "pink" is one way to...):
go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Sound like a car engine that is firing too early
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
pink; ping; knock
Context examples:
the car pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline / The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded
Hypernyms (to "pink" is one way to...):
go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "pink" is one way to...):
cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
