RED (red, redded, redder, reddest, redding)
Dictionary entry overview: What does Red mean?
• RED (noun)
The noun RED has 4 senses:
1. red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
2. a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana
3. emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
4. the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
Familiarity information: RED used as a noun is uncommon.
• RED (adjective)
The adjective RED has 4 senses:
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
2. characterized by violence or bloodshed
3. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
4. red with or characterized by blood
Familiarity information: RED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• RED (noun)
Meaning:
Red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
red; redness
Hypernyms ("red" is a kind of...):
chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "red"):
sanguine (a blood-red color)
orange red; scarlet; vermilion (a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge)
cerise; cherry; cherry red (a red the color of ripe cherries)
purplish red (a red with a tinge of purple)
dark red (a red color that reflects little light)
crimson; deep red; ruby (a deep and vivid red color)
cardinal; carmine (a variable color averaging a vivid red)
alizarine red; Turkey red (a bright orange-red color produced in cotton cloth with alizarine dye)
chrome red (a red pigment used in paints; basic lead chromate)
Meaning:
A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
Red River; Red
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Red" is a part of...):
LA; Louisiana; Pelican State (a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
OK; Oklahoma; Sooner State (a state in south central United States)
Lone-Star State; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)
Meaning:
Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bolshy; bolshie; Bolshevik; Marxist; red
Hypernyms ("red" is a kind of...):
radical (a person who has radical ideas or opinions)
Meaning:
The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
red ink; loss; red
Context examples:
the company operated at a loss last year / the company operated in the red last year
Hypernyms ("red" is a kind of...):
amount; amount of money; sum; sum of money (a quantity of money)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "red"):
paper loss (an unrealized loss on an investment calculated by subtracting the current market price from the investor's cost)
squeeze (a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer)
• RED (adjective)
Meaning:
Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
Synonyms:
reddish; ruby; ruby-red; scarlet; red; crimson; cherry-red; blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry; ruddy
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Meaning:
Characterized by violence or bloodshed
Synonyms:
crimson; red; violent
Context examples:
writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days / fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing / convulsed with red rage
Similar:
bloody (having or covered with or accompanied by blood)
Meaning:
(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
Synonyms:
red-faced; reddened; flushed; crimson; red
Context examples:
crimson with fury / turned red from exertion / with puffy reddened eyes / red-faced and violent / flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment
Similar:
colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)
Meaning:
Red with or characterized by blood
Context examples:
waving our red weapons o'er our heads / The Red Badge of Courage / the red rules of tooth and claw
Similar:
bloody (having or covered with or accompanied by blood)
