red-rimmed

1. 1.

   rimmed with red

   “your red-rimmed eyes reveal that you have been crying”

   Similarrimmed

Questions about red-rimmed

What does red-rimmed mean?

red-rimmed means "rimmed with red".

How many syllables are in red-rimmed?

red-rimmed has 2 syllables and divides as red-rim-med 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.

Is red-rimmed a common word?

red-rimmed 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.