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[ UK /ɹˈuːbɪkˌʌnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life
    a ruddy complexion
    a fresh and sanguine complexion
    Santa's rubicund cheeks

How To Use rubicund In A Sentence

  • You'd think they couldn't ruin a steak, surely there's a rubicund, porky chef, with a hat, prodding and turning steaks over a hot griddle.
  • [Footnote 17: It is stated that the Aztecs paused in admiration of this feat, whilst "the Son of the Sun," as they termed Alvarado, from his fair hair and rubicund visage, performed this extraordinary leap; considering it miraculous.] Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
  • Over a glass of rubicund wine and juicy steak, he poses the main dilemma of the movie.
  • The relatives had all gathered round for one last kind word to them, and many still laughed and joked with rubicund cheeks and loose tongues.
  • Willi padded round the room with his basket, a balding, rubicund Eliza Doolittle.
  • Reverend Jenkins was tall, rubicund, big-boned yet fragile-looking, with a full shock of longish white hair topping the bill. Shortcut Man
  • Theobald Tanqueray Thompkinson, leaning unsteadily forwards, jocular and rotund; rubicund, reckless and implausibly optimistic. Pigeon Post
  • It sees the countryside as a large playground-museum, filled with red-faced Poujadiste farmers, cruel fox-hunting squires and rubicund peasants, over which its supporters are encouraged to roam at will. Archive 2008-02-10
  • The fat, rubicund little man would tiptoe into the room, finger on lip, half in order to amuse Elsa, half from a very genuine fear of disturbing or calling forth his learned son-in-law, with whom he found it impossible to fraternise. Two Tales of Old Strasbourg
  • The rubicund moon-head goes wagging; darker beams the copper visage, like unscoured copper; in the glazed eye is disquietude; he rolls uneasy in his seat, as if he meant something. The French Revolution
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