RED (red, redded, redder, reddest, redding)

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Irregular inflected forms: red    , redded    , redder    , reddest    , redding   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Red mean? 

• RED (noun)
  The noun RED has 4 senses:

1. red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

2. a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana

3. emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

4. the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue

  Familiarity information: RED used as a noun is uncommon.

• RED (adjective)
  The adjective RED has 3 senses:

1. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

2. characterized by violence or bloodshed

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

  Familiarity information: RED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

red; redness

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

chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)

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

sanguine (a blood-red color)

chrome red (a red pigment used in paints; basic lead chromate)

alizarine red; Turkey red (a bright orange-red color produced in cotton cloth with alizarine dye)

cardinal; carmine (a variable color averaging a vivid red)

crimson; deep red; ruby (a deep and vivid red color)

dark red (a red color that reflects little light)

purplish-red; purplish red (a red with a tinge of purple)

cerise; cherry; cherry red (a red the color of ripe cherries)

orange red; scarlet; vermilion (a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge)

Derivation:

red (of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Red; Red River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Red" is a part of...):

LA; La.; Louisiana; Pelican State (a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

OK; Okla.; Oklahoma; Sooner State (a state in south central United States)

Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bolshevik; bolshie; bolshy; Marxist; red

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

radical (a person who has radical ideas or opinions)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

loss; red; red ink

Context example:

the company operated in the red last year

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

amount; amount of money; sum; sum of money (a quantity of money)

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

paper loss (an unrealized loss on an investment calculated by subtracting the current market price from the investor's cost)

squeeze (a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer)

• RED (adjective)

Comparative: redder   
Superlative: reddest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

Synonyms:

blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry; cherry-red; crimson; red; reddish; ruby; ruby-red; ruddy; scarlet

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characterized by violence or bloodshed

Synonyms:

crimson; red; violent

Context example:

convulsed with red rage

Similar:

bloody (having or covered with or accompanied by blood)

Sense 3

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)

Derivation:

redness (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)

 Context examples 

I could see that it was already a third full of bundles of paper tied up with red tape into separate packages.

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

Mr. Morse's face was a trifle red.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Two vivid red spots stood out on one of the white, round limbs.

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

A day to circle in red is December 27, the Luckiest Day of 2019, a day that will mark the alignment of the Sun and Jupiter.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Evidently, the red tufts of hair must have had symbolic value for these social groups.

(Hair was dyed for first time as part of funeral rituals, University of Granada)

NGTS-1 is a relatively dim red M-dwarf, which are very common in the universe, of apparent magnitude 15.52 ± 0.08.

(Astronomers report dwarf star with unexpectedly giant planet, Wikinews)

To further test the ability of the scaffold to remove toxins, the scientists mixed red blood cells with melittin treated with the detoxification device.

(3-D gel-nanoparticle device detoxifies blood, NIH)

The red cores of the green bubbles are made of warm dust that has not yet been pushed away from the windy stars.

(Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow "Space Balls", NASA)

They had taken the sparkle from her eyes and left them a sober gray; they had taken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I took up the envelope and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the gum, the letter K three times repeated.

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