Adjective: red (redder,reddest) red
- 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 red tinge";
- reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet, reddy, rufescent
- (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
"turned red from exertion"; "red-faced and violent";
- crimson, reddened, red-faced, flushed
- Characterized by violence or bloodshed
"convulsed with red rage";
- crimson, violent
- [informal] Relating to or marked by communism
"red Party";
- communist, communistic
- Red colour or pigment; the chromatic colour resembling the hue of blood
"The red of the stop sign caught the driver's attention";
- redness
- The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
"the company operated in the red last year"; "The company's financial report showed significant red ink in the fourth quarter";
- loss, red ink [informal]
- [informal] (derogatory) a socialist who advocates communism
"He dismissively referred to his political opponents as reds";
- communist, commie [informal], commo [informal]
- A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana
"The Red River forms a natural border between Texas and Oklahoma";
- Red River of the South, Red River
Sounds like: reave, e, red, rea
Derived forms: Reds, redder, reds, reddest
See also: bloody, chromatic, colored [US], colorful [US], coloured [Brit, Cdn], colourful [Brit, Cdn]
Type of: advocate, advocator, amount, amount of money, chromatic color [US], chromatic colour [Brit, Cdn], exponent, proponent, river, spectral color [US], spectral colour [Brit, Cdn], sum, sum of money
Part of: LA, La., Lone-Star State, Louisiana, OK, Okla., Oklahoma, Pelican State, Sooner State, Tex., Texas, TX
Encyclopedia: Red, White and Brown