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1. Of 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, rufescent, reddy
    
2. Characterized by violence or bloodshed
   "convulsed with red rage";
   - crimson, violent
    
3. (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
    
4. [informal] Relating to or marked by communism
   "red Party";
   - communist, communistic

1. Red colour or pigment; the chromatic colour resembling the hue of blood
   - redness
    
2. An emotionally charged term used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
   - Bolshevik, Marxist, bolshie [Brit, informal], bolshy [Brit, informal]
    
3. The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
   "the company operated in the red last year";
   - loss, red ink
    
4. [informal] A socialist who advocates communism
   - communist, commie [informal], commo [informal]

1. A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana
   - Red River of the South, Red River

Sounds like: reave, e, red, rea

Derived forms: Reds, reddest, redder, reds

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, rad [informal], radical, 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