cherry-red

Questions about cherry-red

What does cherry-red mean?

cherry-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 cherry-red?

cherry-red has 2 syllables: cher-ry-red. The stress falls on "cher".

What is another word for cherry-red?

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

cherry-red is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.