Meaning & use

Sunkissed

adjective·Everyday

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Lightly and attractively tanned or warmed by exposure to sunlight.

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Her sunkissed skin was a souvenir of the long summer vacation.

The vineyard's grapes ripen on sunkissed hillsides.

A note on using this word

More commonly written with a hyphen as "sun-kissed"; "sunkissed" is a frequent informal variant spelling.

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