DEEP RED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deep red mean? 

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

1. a deep and vivid red color

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEEP RED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deep and vivid red color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

crimson; deep red; ruby

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

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

 Context examples 

Port-wine stains vary in color from fairly pale pink to deep red or purple and in size from a few millimeters to many centimeters in diameter.

(Nevus Flammeus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

We stood so, a long time; long enough for me to see the white marks of my fingers die out of the deep red of his cheek, and leave it a deeper red.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is prepared by heating phthalic anhydride and resorcinol over a zinc catalyst, and it crystallizes as a deep red powder.

(Fluorescein, NCI Thesaurus)

A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle in the centre; the two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery; the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour with a blush of pink in it; the wardrobe, the toilet-table, the chairs were of darkly polished old mahogany.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)