red

Meanings

• red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
• a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana
• emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
• the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
  • "the company operated in the red last year"
• 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
  • "convulsed with red rage"
• (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
  • "turned red from exertion"
  • "with puffy reddened eyes"
  • "red-faced and violent"

Synonyms

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