COMPLEXION

[kəm`plekʃ(ə)n]

цвет лица; состояние кожи лица

(внешний) вид, облик; аспект; сторона

характер

complexion: translation

1 skin/face

▪ beautiful, clear, flawless, fresh, glowing, healthy, lovely, nice, perfect

▪ dull, pallid, pasty, sallow

▪ creamy, fair, light, milky, pale

▪ dark, olive, swarthy, tan (AmE), tanned

▪ florid (esp.BrE), pink, rosy, ruddy

▪

a young girl with a rosy complexion

▪ smooth

▪ have

▪ give sb

▪

Years of heavy drinking had given Moira a florid complexion.

2 general nature/character of sth

▪ different, new

▪ political, social

▪

a change in the political complexion of the council

▪ put, take on

▪

What you have told us puts a different complexion on the situation.

▪

The joke took on a rather serious complexion when the police became involved.

▪ change

▪

Hughes helped change the complexion of Hollywood.

complexion: translation

achromatism, air, ambiversion, bearing, body-build, brand, brow, carriage, cast, cast of countenance, character, characteristic, characteristics, chromatism, chromism, color, color balance, color harmony, color scheme, coloration, coloring, composition, constituents, constitution, countenance, crasis, cycloid personality, cyclothymia, decorator color, demeanor, dharma, diathesis, disposition, ectomorphism, ectomorphy, endomorphism, endomorphy, ethos, extroversion, extrovertedness, face, facial appearance, fashion, favor, feature, features, fiber, form, frame, garb, genius, grain, guise, habit, hue, humor, humors, ilk, individualism, individuality, ingoingness, introversion, introvertedness, key, kind, lineaments, lines, looks, makeup, manner, mesomorphism, mesomorphy, mien, mode, mold, natural color, nature, other-directedness, outgoingness, pallor, personality, personality tendency, physiognomy, physique, port, posture, presence, property, quality, schizoid personality, schizothymia, shade, shape, skin color, somatotype, sort, spirit, stamp, stance, streak, stripe, style, suchness, syntony, system, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, traits, turn, type, undercolor, vein, visage, way

1. цвет лица

2. вид, характер

complexion [kəmˊplekʃn] n

1) цвет лица́ (иногда тж. воло́с и глаз)

2) вид; аспе́кт;

f

1) комплекция, телосложение

2) цвет лица

3) уст. темперамент, нрав

Комплексный ион.