DARK RED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dark red mean? 

• DARK RED (noun)
  The noun DARK RED has 1 sense:

1. a red color that reflects little light

  Familiarity information: DARK RED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DARK RED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A red color that reflects little light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("dark red" is a kind of...):

red; redness (red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dark red"):

burgundy (a dark purplish-red to blackish-red color)

claret (a dark purplish-red color)

oxblood red (a dark brownish-red color)

wine; wine-colored; wine-coloured (a red as dark as red wine)

 Context examples 

The upper slopes of the highest peaks are coated with a bright material that contrasts sharply with the dark red color of the surrounding plains.

(Methane Snow on Pluto’s Peaks, NASA)

It has a dark red colour, similar to objects in the outer Solar System, and it is completely inert, without the faintest hint of dust around it.

(ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before, ESO)

Then, suddenly, in the black darkness of the arch in front of us we saw a gleam of dark red light.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A dark red to brown colored, crystalline, inorganic compound that emits toxic chromium fumes upon heating.

(Chromium Trioxide, NCI Thesaurus)

A complication of MALARIA, FALCIPARUM characterized by the passage of dark red to black urine.

(Blackwater Fever, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Then, again, I have heard it is no use your applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but real bright, blazing, fiery red.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a pale-green foreground of feathery vegetation, which sloped upwards and ended in a line of cliffs dark red in color, and curiously ribbed like some basaltic formations which I have seen.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)