RED-FACED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red-faced mean? 

• RED-FACED (adjective)
  The adjective RED-FACED has 2 senses:

1. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion

2. having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset

  Familiarity information: RED-FACED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED-FACED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion

Synonyms:

crimson; flushed; red; red-faced; reddened

Context example:

flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment

Similar:

colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset

Synonyms:

blushful; blushing; red-faced

Context example:

was red-faced with anger

Similar:

discomposed (having your composure disturbed)

 Context examples 

A courteous red-faced old gentleman represented the railway company.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It must have tried, too, the nerves of the red-faced man, for I have another picture which will never fade from my mind.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

One of these, a short, burly, red-faced man, full of fuss and self-importance, came hurrying up to my uncle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He runs after us, a puffing, red-faced, irascible figure.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Tell me, friend,” said Alleyne to the portly red-faced inn-keeper, “has a knight and a squire passed this way within the hour?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A minute later we heard steps upon the stairs, and an elderly red-faced man with grizzled side-whiskers was ushered in.

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

This was a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous and decided manner.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“And now they’re payin’ their respects to each other and tryin’ to get clear,” the red-faced man went on, as the hurried whistling ceased.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The fat, red-faced gleeman, the listening group, the archer with upraised finger beating in time to the music, and the huge sprawling figure of Hordle John, all thrown into red light and black shadow by the flickering fire in the centre—memory was to come often lovingly back to it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Grab hold of something and hang on,” the red-faced man said to me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)