red
1. red color or pigment;
the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood (Freq. 9)
• Syn:
redness
• Derivationally related forms:
red (for: redness)
• Hypernyms:
chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
• Hyponyms:
sanguine, chrome red, Turkey red, alizarine red, cardinal,
carmine, crimson, ruby, deep red, dark red, purplish red,
purplish red, cerise, cherry, cherry red, scarlet,
vermilion, orange red
2. emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
Bolshevik, Marxist, bolshie, bolshy
• Derivationally related forms:
bolshevise (for: Bolshevik)
• Hypernyms:
radical
3. 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
• Syn:
loss, red ink
• Ant:
gain (for: loss)
• Hypernyms:
sum, sum of money, amount, amount of money
• Hyponyms:
paper loss, squeeze
1. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange);
resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies (Freq. 43)
• Syn:
reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise,
cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
• Similar to:
chromatic
• Derivationally related forms:
scarlet (for: scarlet), crimson (for: crimson), cherry (for: cherry), cerise (for: cerise), carmine (for: carmine), ruddiness (for: ruddy), redness
2. characterized by violence or bloodshed (Freq. 8)
- "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke
- "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray
- "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode
• Syn:
crimson, violent
• Similar to:
bloody
• Derivationally related forms:
violence (for: violent)
3. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion (Freq. 7)
- crimson with fury
- turned red from exertion
- with puffy reddened eyes
- red-faced and violent
- flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment
• Syn:
crimson, reddened, red-faced, flushed
• Similar to:
colored, coloured, colorful
• Derivationally related forms:
redness
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