1. Having a colour at the end of the colour spectrum (next to orange); resembling the colour of blood, cherries, tomatoes or rubies
   "The picture would come through dark with a crimson tinge";
   - red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet, reddy, rufescent
    
2. (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";
   - red, reddened, red-faced, flushed
    
3. Characterized by violence or bloodshed
   "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing";
   - red, violent

1. A deep and vivid red colour
   "The crimson roses were the centrepiece of the bouquet";
   - ruby, deep red

1. Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
   "The girl crimsoned when a young man whistled as she walked by";
   - blush, flush, redden

Derived forms: crimsons, crimsoned, crimsoning

See also: bloody, chromatic, colored [US], colorful [US], coloured [Brit, Cdn], colourful [Brit, Cdn]

Type of: color [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], red, redness

Encyclopedia: Crimson