crimson

Meanings

• a deep and vivid red color
• turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
• of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
• characterized by violence or bloodshed; - Andrea Parke; - Thomas Gray; - Hudson Strode
  • "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"
  • "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"
• (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
  • "crimson with fury"
  • "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"

Synonyms

blood-red, blush, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, deep red, flush, flushed, red, red-faced, redden, reddened, reddish, ruby, ruby-red, ruddy, scarlet, violent