Replete Mope Strawberry

Latin replētus, filled — past-participle of replēre. As a color modifier, replete implies a saturated-and-fully-pigmented quality where the hue is completely loaded with its source pigment. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to brimming and suffused in usage.

Origin obscure, attested c. 1568, to-be-listless-and-dejected. As a color modifier, mope implies a listless-and-dejected-and-slumped quality, the visual register of Victorian-melancholy-and-rainy-Sunday-mope hand-listless-and-dejected-and-slumped Victorian-melancholy-and-rainy-Sunday-and-bored-afternoon moped-and-listless-and-dejected-and-slumped surfaces under Victorian-melancholy-and-rainy-Sunday-and-bored-afternoon dripping-eaves-and-grey-window slumped-window-seat-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to brood and sigh in usage.

Fragaria × ananassa, the cultivated strawberry of European gardens since the eighteenth century. The color refers to the surface of a ripe berry: a clean, bright red with a slight blue shift in the shadows of the achenes. Warmer than ruby, lighter than crimson, with the optical brightness of fresh fruit rather than the depth of pigment or gem.