pinkness Definition

pink¹
noun

1. A light or pale-red colour, between red and white.
2. An annual or perennial plant, eg a carnation or sweet william, which has stems with swollen nodes, grass-like bluish-green leaves and flowers with a tubular calyx and five spreading toothed or slightly frilled pink, red, white, purple, yellow, orange or variegated petals.
3a. A scarlet hunting-coat or its colour;
3b. The person wearing it.
4. The highest point; the acme.

Example: in the pink of condition
5. A person of mildly left-wing views. Compare red noun 7.

adj

1. Having, being or referring to the colour pink.
2. Slightly left-wing.

Idiom: in the pink

colloq
In the best of health.

Derivative: pinkish
adj

Derivative: pinkness
noun

Derivative: pinky

See separate entry.

Etymology: 16c as noun sense 2.