crimson

1. 1.

   a deep and vivid red color

   Synonymsrubydeep red

   Broaderred

1. 1.

   turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

   “The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by”

   Synonymsblushflushredden

   Broaderdiscolor

Other forms of crimson

plural

crimsons·

past tense

crimsonned·

present participle

crimsonning·

comparative

crimsonner·

superlative

crimsonnest·

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 crimson

What does crimson mean?

crimson 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". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crimson?

crimson has 2 syllables: crim-son. The stress falls on "crim". In IPA it is /ˈkɹɪmzən/.

What is another word for crimson?

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 crimson a common word?

crimson 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.