red-faced

Questions about red-faced

What does red-faced mean?

red-faced means "(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in red-faced?

red-faced has 2 syllables and divides as red--faced under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for red-faced?

Close synonyms include crimson, red, reddened, flushed, blushful. 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-faced a common word?

red-faced 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.