seeing red

1. 1.

   a state of irritation or annoyance

   Synonymshuffmiff

   Broaderirritation

Questions about seeing red

What does seeing red mean?

seeing red means "a state of irritation or annoyance".

What is another word for seeing red?

Close synonyms include huff, miff. 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 seeing red a common word?

seeing 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.