carmine

Other forms of carmine

plural

carmines·

past tense

carmined·

present participle

carmining·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about carmine

What does carmine mean?

carmine means "a variable color averaging a vivid red". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carmine?

carmine has 2 syllables: car-mine. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkɑɹmən/.

What is another word for carmine?

Close synonyms include cardinal, red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red. 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 carmine a common word?

carmine is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.