1. Having a colour at the end of the colour spectrum (next to orange); resembling the colour of blood, cherries, tomatoes or rubies
   "The picture would come through dark with a ruddy tinge";
   - red, reddish, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet, reddy, rufescent
    
2. Inclined to a healthy reddish colour often associated with outdoor life
   "a ruddy complexion";
   - rubicund, florid, sanguine

Derived forms: ruddiest, ruddier

See also: chromatic, healthy

Encyclopedia: Ruddy, Tom