peachy

/'pi:tʃi/

Thân thiện

The sunset cast a peachy glow across the clouds.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Resembling a peach in color: Having a soft, warm, pinkish-orange hue similar to that of a peach fruit.
   • Very good, excellent, pleasing: (Informal) Used to describe something as wonderful, delightful, or first-rate.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (Color):
  • The walls were painted a lovely peachy shade.
  • She wore a dress in a soft peachy pink.
• Adjective (Quality):
  • "How was your vacation?" "Oh, it was just peachy!"
  • Everything is peachy here; don't worry about a thing.

Advanced Usage

• "Peachy-keen": An informal, emphatic expression meaning extremely fine or excellent, often with a slightly old-fashioned or enthusiastic tone.
  • He said everything was peachy-keen and going according to plan.

Variants and Related Words

• Peach (n): The fruit which the color and informal quality sense derive from.
• Peachiness (n): The state or quality of being peachy (in color or, informally, in quality).

Synonyms

• For color: Peach-colored, salmon, pinkish-orange.
• For quality (informal): Excellent, splendid, wonderful, great, smashing, neat, bully.

Idioms and Phrases

• "Just peachy": A common informal phrase, often used ironically to mean the opposite when the situation is actually bad or problematic.
  • My car broke down, and I'm late for work. Everything's just peachy.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. of something resembling a peach in color
2. very good
   • he did a bully job
   • a neat sports car
   • had a great time at the party
   • you look simply smashing

Từ đồng nghĩa

• peachy-colored
• peachy-coloured