red

(noun, adjective, verb)

adjective

1. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

Similar word(s): chromatic, carmine, cerise, cherry, crimson, reddish, ruby, ruddy, scarlet

2. characterized by violence or bloodshed

- convulsed with red rage

Similar word(s): bloody, crimson, violent

3. (especially of the face) red as if with blood from anger or embarrassment

- turned red from exertion

- with puffy reddened eyes

- red-faced and violent

Similar word(s): colored, colorful, coloured, crimson, flushed, reddened

4. (US) supportive of the political party represented by the color red, especially the U.S. Republican Party.

Sentences with red as an adjective:

- The girl wore a red skirt.

- Her hair had red highlights.

- a red state

- a red Congress

- a red advertisement

- the red-black grand coalition

noun

1. red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

Similar word(s): redness

Definition categories: attribute

2. a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana

Definition categories: object

3. emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

Similar word(s): bolshevik, bolshie, bolshy, marxist

Definition categories: person, radical

4. the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue

- the company operated in the red last year

Similar word(s): loss

Definition categories: possession, amount, sum

Sentences with red as a noun:

- red colour:

verb

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of rede