red
adjective
[ rɛd ]
• of a colour at the end of the spectrum next to orange and opposite violet, as of blood, fire, or rubies.
• "her red lips"
Similar:
scarlet,
vermilion,
ruby,
ruby red,
ruby-coloured,
cherry,
cherry red,
cerise,
cardinal,
carmine,
wine,
wine red,
wine-coloured,
claret,
claret red,
claret-coloured,
blood red,
flame,
flaming,
coral,
cochineal,
rose,
rosy,
brick red,
maroon,
rusty,
foxy,
rufous,
reddish,
damask,
vermeil,
sanguine,
gules,
rufescent,
• communist or socialist (used especially during the Cold War with reference to the Soviet Union).
• "the era of nuclear anxiety, the red scare and covert CIA plots"
• involving bloodshed or violence.
• "red battle stamps his foot and nations feel the shock"
• (of a Xhosa) coming from a traditional tribal culture.
• "a red Xhosa wife spends several years in her mother-in-law's homestead"
red
noun
• red colour or pigment.
• "their work is marked in red by the teacher"
• a red thing.
• "which dress - the black or the red?"
• a communist or socialist.
Similar:
Communist,
Marxist,
socialist,
left-winger,
leftist,
Bolshevik,
revolutionary,
anti-capitalist,
commie,
lefty,
• the situation of owing money to a bank or making a loss in a business operation.
• "the company was £4 million in the red"
Similar:
overdrawn,
in debt,
in debit,
in deficit,
owing money,
in arrears,
showing a loss,
Opposite:
in the black,
Origin:
Old English rēad, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rood and German rot, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin rufus, ruber, Greek eruthros, and Sanskrit rudhira ‘red’.
red-
prefix
• variant spelling of re- before a vowel (as in redolent ).
re-
prefix
• once more; afresh; anew.
• "reaccustom"
• in return; mutually.
• "react"
• behind or after.
• "relic"
• with frequentative or intensive force.
• "refine"
• with negative force.
• "recant"
Origin:
from Latin re-, red- ‘again, back’.
