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red
adj 1: having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent
of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or
rubies [syn: reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine,
cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby,
ruby-red, scarlet]
2: characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson
deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by
Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red
rage"- Hudson Strode [syn: crimson, violent]
3: (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if
with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury";
"turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes";
"red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with
embarrassment" [syn: crimson, reddened, red-faced, flushed]
4: red with or characterized by blood; "waving our red weapons
o'er our heads"- Shakespeare; "The Red Badge of Courage";
"the red rules of tooth and claw"- P.B.Sears
n 1: the quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the
hue of blood [syn: redness]
2: a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward
from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and
through Louisiana [syn: Red River]
3: emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals
or revolutionaries [syn: Bolshevik, Marxist, pinko,
bolshie]
4: the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its
revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the
company operated in the red last year" [syn: loss, red
ink] [ant: gain]
[also: redding, redded, reddest, redder]