Synonyms for red
- adjective
- noun
Definitions
- adj. 1
Of a red hue.
The girl wore a red skirt.
- adj. 2
Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
Her hair had red highlights.
- n. 1
The colour of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the colour which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive colour.
Red can be seen as hot or angry.
Related words
- Word family
- reddish red-baiting redbelly redberry redbill redbird red-blood red-blooded
- Phrases
- red nightshade red cent red worm red fascist red gum red packet red whortleberry arctic red jellyfish
- Is a kind of
- color hue pigment
Forms
- Plural
- reds → bolsheviks, bolshies, vermilions, clarets…
Example sentences
- scarlet Scarlet is a beautiful color, but I like fuchsia.
- crimson As the sun sets, the sky turns a beautiful crimson.
- carmine My favourite colour is carmine red.
- violent Violent criminals were often bullies in childhood.
By length
- 4 letters
- loss1, ruby2
- 5 letters
- ruddy2, gules
- 6 letters
- cherry2, maroon2, claret, cerise2
- 7 letters
- violent3, crimson2, scarlet2, reddish2, flushed1, carmine2, redness2, redskin2, redbird2, bolshie
- 8 letters
- blushing2, cinnabar3, reddened, rubicund
- 9 letters
- communist3, bolshevik3, vermilion3, rufescent
- 12 letters
- secobarbital
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ruby2 = 2 syllables).