orange red

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   a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge

   Synonymsscarletvermilion

   Broaderred

Questions about orange red

What does orange red mean?

orange red means "a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge".

What is another word for orange red?

Close synonyms include scarlet, vermilion. 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 orange red a common word?

orange 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.