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# complexion

«complexion» in Mova's school dictionary: **The natural colour and look of a person's skin…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (complexions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The natural colour and look of a person's skin, especially on the face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/complexion/#m1)

2) (formal) The general character or look of something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/complexion/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, describes a person's skin, such as a fair or pale complexion; in the lessons it can also mean the mood or character of a thing

### examples

- She had a fair complexion and rosy cheeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/complexion/#x1)
- The cold made his complexion pale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/complexion/#x2)
- The whole complexion of the story changed when the stranger arrived. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/complexion/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «complexion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/complexion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.