reddish brown

1. 1.

   a shade of brown with a tinge of red

   Synonymssepiaburnt siennaVenetian redmahogany

   Broaderbrown

   Narrowerbrick redcopperIndian red

Questions about reddish brown

What does reddish brown mean?

reddish brown means "a shade of brown with a tinge of red".

What is another word for reddish brown?

Close synonyms include sepia, burnt sienna, Venetian red, mahogany. 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 reddish brown a common word?

reddish brown 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.