pink

pink is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, intransitive verb, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.
2. intransitive verb. To wink; to blink.
3. adjective. Half-shut; winking.
4. transitive verb. To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.
5. transitive verb. To stab; to pierce as with a sword.
6. transitive verb. To choose; to cull; to pick out.
7. noun. A stab.
8. transitive verb. A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.
9. transitive verb. A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower.
10. transitive verb. Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.
11. transitive verb. The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.
12. adjective. Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.
13. noun. a light shade of red
14. noun. a person with mildly leftist political views

    Synonyms: pinko

15. noun. any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
16. verb. cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
17. verb. sound like a car engine that is firing too early

    "the car pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline"

    "The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded"

    Synonyms: knock, ping

18. verb. make light, repeated taps on a surface

    "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"

    Synonyms: knock, rap, tap

19. adjective. of a light shade of red

    Synonyms: pinkish

Synonyms

pinko, knock, ping, rap, tap, pinkish

Common word forms

pinks, pinked, pinken, pinker, pinkly, pinkest, pinking, pinkness

Words from these letters

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