red

  • (s) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, reddish, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet, ruddy,
  • (s) characterized by violence or bloodshed
    • writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days - Andrea Parke
    • fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing - Thomas Gray
    • convulsed with red rage - Hudson Strode
    crimson, violent,
  • (s) (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
    • crimson with fury
    • turned red from exertion
    • with puffy reddened eyes
    • red-faced and violent
    • flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment
    reddened, red-faced, flushed, crimson,

Nouns

  • (n) red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood redness,
  • (n) a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana Red River,
  • (n) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries Bolshevik, bolshie, bolshy, Marxist,
  • (n) the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
    • the company operated at a loss last year
    • the company operated in the red last year
    red ink, loss,

Synonyms

blood-red carmine cerise cherry cherry-red crimson reddish ruby ruby-red scarlet ruddy redness violent Red River reddened red-faced flushed Bolshevik bolshie bolshy Marxist red ink loss

Antonyms

gain

Words of close approximity

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RA Rb R.C. re RF Rg RH RI RN Ro Ru R.V. RV
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