Adjective: pink
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | pinker |
| Superlative | pinkest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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The word "socialist" has so many connotations that it can cover almost anything from pink liberalism to red-red communism. [1976, Bhalchandra Pundlik Adarkar, The Future of the Constitution: A Critical Analysis:]
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pink-collar
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pink job
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the pink economy
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pink pound
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pink dollar
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pink triangle
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The lesbian and gay movement must decide whether the Parade is for celebrating how far we've come as we further our struggle for liberation, or whether it is going to be just another profit-making industry, supporting lesbian and gay careerism and becoming part of the Establishment (albeit a pink one!) [1991 August 24, Lori Nairne, “Whose Parade Is It, Anyway?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 5:]
Adjectives inflected like pink
sallow,
smooth,
slight,
sleigh,
sordid,
somber,
shweet,
shrill,
shrewd,
yellow,
yaller,
hard knock,
DRY,
Greek,
cut short,
unquiet,
unclean,
indiscreet,
chipper,
straicht, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pinken (“to blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked. An earlier word for similar flesh-like colors, mostly displaced by pink, was incarnation ([1300s]; see Etymonline) and carnation.
Verbs referencing "pink"
German Adjectives
pink, Finnish Adjectives
pinkki.