different between carnation vs tarnation

English

Etymology

From Middle French carnation (“person's color or complexion”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k???ne?.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k???ne?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

carnation (countable and uncountable, plural carnations)

1. (botany) A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
   1. originally, Dianthus caryophyllus
   2. other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids
2. The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
3. A rosy pink colour
4. (archaic) The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh

5. A scarlet colour.

Synonyms

• (plant, flower): clove pink (also called gillyflower), (ancestor of the carnation) Dianthus caryophyllus
• (plant, flower): cottage pink, Dianthus plumarius

Related terms

• carnal
• carnassial
• carnify
• carnival
• carnivore
• carnosity
• incarnadine
• incarnate

Translations

Adjective

carnation (not comparable)

1. Of a rosy pink or red colour.
2. (archaic) Of a human flesh color.

Translations

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}
• gypsophila

Anagrams

• Cantorian, Carnotian

French

Etymology

From Middle French, possibly from Italian carnagione (“flesh color”), either way from Late Latin carn?ti? (“fleshiness”) (from Latin car? (“flesh”)), or from a corruption of coronation (from Latin cor?n?re (“to crown”), from cor?na (“crown”)), because of the flower's use in chaplets or from the toothed crown-like look of the petals.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?.na.sj??/

Noun

carnation f (countable and uncountable, plural carnations)

1. (uncountable) a fleshy pinkish color (not the color of a carnation flower)
2. (countable) skin tone

   Synonym: teint

Further reading

• “carnation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• connaitra, connaîtra

English

Etymology

From darnation, influenced by tarnal (from eternal); see darn.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /t???ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

tarnation (countable and uncountable, plural tarnations)

1. (archaic) The act or process of damnation or reprobation; hell.

   What in tarnation is going on?

2. (obsolete) Someone or something that causes trouble; troublemaker.

Interjection

tarnation

1. (archaic) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.

Adjective

tarnation (comparative more tarnation, superlative most tarnation)

1. Bothersome; devilish.
2. Generic intensifier.

Adverb

tarnation (comparative more tarnation, superlative most tarnation)

1. Very; extremely.

Usage notes

This New Englandism has fallen out of use in New England, but is remembered for its colorfulness and is still used in the Southeastern United States as a minced oath, where ‘hell’ or ‘damn’ would otherwise be said, especially in the phrase "what in tarnation".

Anagrams

• Tarantino, intra-NATO, tranation