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- adjective
superlative form oforange : mostorange .
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Examples
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VINNY GUADAGNINO: A friend of mine sent me an application asking for the orangest, muscley, spiky-haired people that go down to the Jersey shore.
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Beets consumed at dinner will, come morning, stock a toilet bowl with crimson fish, their hue attesting to beet's chromatic immunity to the powerful digestive acids and thoroughgoing microbes that can turn the reddest pimento, the orangest carrot, the yellowest squash into a single disgusting shade of brown.
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We rounded up the most sun-kissed, bronzed and orangest famous faces from D.C. to Hollywood to see who would be hit hard by the tanning tax.
Tanning Tax: Which Famous Face Will Be Hit The Hardest? (PHOTOS, POLL) 2010
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We rounded up the most sun-kissed, bronzed and orangest famous faces from D.C. to Hollywood to see who would be hit hard by the tanning tax.
Tanning Tax: Which Famous Face Will Be Hit The Hardest? (PHOTOS, POLL) 2010
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I'm all for giving the CF the tools to do the job; but somehow I doubt the NDP, in its orangest of hearts, wants a Canadian MacArthur.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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I'm all for giving the CF the tools to do the job; but somehow I doubt the NDP, in its orangest of hearts, wants a Canadian MacArthur.
Afstan and Canadian politics: BQ beats NDP; Liberal is? 2007
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You can then spend your time playing because the world or its people are interesting, not because you want to have the biggest, baddest, orangest equipment on the block.
WoW-nnui 2006
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“Fred,” Rhyme said as Dellray—now wearing the orangest shirt that the criminalist had ever seen—walked into his living room laboratory.
The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002
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“Fred,” Rhyme said as Dellray—now wearing the orangest shirt that the criminalist had ever seen—walked into his living room laboratory.
The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002
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“Fred,” Rhyme said as Dellray—now wearing the orangest shirt that the criminalist had ever seen—walked into his living room laboratory.
The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002
mollusque commented on the word orangest
Why is "orangest" not listed in any dictionary? Its meaning should be obvious to any English-speaking six year old. It gets 23,000 g-hits and dozens of genuine uses turn up in searches of Google books and in Amazon books. Comparatives and superlatives of other common colors are listed in at least some dictionaries. Why is orangest ignored?
g-hits.'>Edit: hyphen subsequently inserted in g-hits.
November 17, 2007
sionnach commented on the word orangest
I have no views on the orangest conundrum, but would like to plead for a hyphen to be inserted in g-hits.
November 17, 2007
seanahan commented on the word orangest
Orange is listed as an adjective in the dictionary, I assume that oranger and orangest are implicit.
November 20, 2007
mollusque commented on the word orangest
But some dictionaries do not leave the comparative and superlative forms as implicit, yet no dictionary (even online) lists oranger and orangest. Try reddest or purplest in OneLook. Then try "orangest". Is there any other ordinary word that has been part of the language for hundreds of years that is not listed in any dictionary?
November 20, 2007
seanahan commented on the word orangest
I can honestly say that I've never used the word orangest, and I can't recall having ever heard or read it. I've heard greenest, bluest, and reddest. I don't think I've heard yellowest or purplest, although they both are recognized as words. This is pretty strange. Perhaps if enough people add it to their words, we can start a movement for the dictionaries to add it. Anyone know a lexicographer?
November 20, 2007
strev commented on the word orangest
taupest in a teapot
June 27, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word orangest
an abbreviated orang joke
June 27, 2009
bilby commented on the word orangest
To take something by mouth, and swallow.
August 17, 2009