dark red

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   a red color that reflects little light

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Questions about dark red

What does dark red mean?

dark red means "a red color that reflects little light".

Is dark red a common word?

dark 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.