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Adjective: red (redder,reddest)  red
  1. Of a colour at the end of the colour spectrum (next to orange); resembling the colour of blood, cherries, tomatoes or rubies
    "The picture would come through dark with a red tinge";
    - reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet, rufescent, reddy
     
  2. Characterized by violence or bloodshed
    "convulsed with red rage";
    - crimson, violent
     
  3. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
    "turned red from exertion"; "red-faced and violent";
    - crimson, reddened, red-faced, flushed
     
  4. Relating to or marked by communism
    "red Party";
    - communist, communistic
Noun: red  red
  1. Red colour or pigment; the chromatic colour resembling the hue of blood
    - redness
     
  2. An emotionally charged term used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
    - Bolshevik, Marxist, bolshie, bolshy
     
  3. The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
    "the company operated in the red last year";
    - loss, red ink
     
  4. A socialist who advocates communism
    - communist, commie
Noun: Red  red
  1. A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana
    - Red River

Sounds like: reave, e, red, rea

Derived forms: redder, reddest, Reds, reds

See also: bloody, chromatic, colored [US], colorful [US], coloured [Brit, Cdn], colourful [Brit, Cdn]

Type of: amount, amount of money, chromatic color [US], chromatic colour [Brit, Cdn], radical, river, socialist, spectral color [US], spectral colour [Brit, Cdn], sum, sum of money

Part of: LA, Lone-Star State, Louisiana, OK, Oklahoma, Pelican State, Sooner State, Texas, TX

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