red

1. 1.

   of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

   Synonymsreddishruddyblood-redcarminecerisecherrycherry-redcrimsonrubyruby-redscarlet

   Similarchromatic
2. 2.

   characterized by violence or bloodshed

   “writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days”

   “fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing”

   “convulsed with red rage”

   Synonymscrimsonviolent

   Similarbloody
3. 3.

   (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion

   “crimson with fury”

   “turned red from exertion”

   “with puffy reddened eyes”

   “red-faced and violent”

   “flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment”

   Synonymscrimsonreddenedred-facedflushed

   Similarcolored

Other forms of red

plural

reds·

comparative or superlative

redder

comparative or superlative

reddest

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 red

What does red mean?

red means "red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in red?

red has 1 syllable: red. In IPA it is /ˈɹɛd/.

What is another word for red?

Close synonyms include redness, Red River, Bolshevik, Marxist, bolshie. 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 red a common word?

red is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with red?

2 words rhyme with red. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.