blood-red

Questions about blood-red

What does blood-red mean?

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

How many syllables are in blood-red?

blood-red has 1 syllable: blood-red.

What is another word for blood-red?

Close synonyms include red, reddish, ruddy, carmine, cerise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blood-red a common word?

blood-red is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.