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SCARLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scarlet mean? 

SCARLET (noun)
  The noun SCARLET has 1 sense:

1. a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tingeplay

  Familiarity information: SCARLET used as a noun is very rare.


SCARLET (adjective)
  The adjective SCARLET has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SCARLET used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SCARLET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

orange red; scarlet; vermilion

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

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

Derivation:

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


SCARLET (adjective)


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:

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


 Context examples 


"I never dreamed of such a thing. What will Mother say? I wonder if her..." there Jo stopped and turned scarlet with a sudden thought.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I watched him as he grew—and he grew like scarlet beans—with painful apprehensions of the time when he would begin to shave; even of the days when he would be bald or grey.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I thought I knew your scarlet curricle. We have an excellent morning for the battle.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I saw the young fellow’s hands clench at the insult, and the blood crawl scarlet up his neck.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But day by day passed away, and they still saw nothing before them but the scarlet fields.

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

He saw Spitz run out his scarlet tongue in a way he had of laughing; and he saw François, swinging an axe, spring into the mess of dogs.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A strip of scarlet cloth, a bearskin, twenty cartridges, and Kiche, went to pay the debt.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He saw her lips formed into a no, though the sound was inarticulate, but her face was like scarlet.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And young and old, noble and squire, gentle and simple, came at once on the summons; and among the rest came the friendly dwarf, with the sugarloaf hat, and a new scarlet cloak.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Elizabeth had caught the scarlet fever; her illness was severe, and she was in the greatest danger.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)



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