red
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(satellite adjective) red with or characterized by blood; "waving our red weapons o'er our heads"- Shakespeare; "The Red Badge of Courage"; "the red rules of tooth and claw"- P.B.Sears |
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(satellite adjective) having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies |
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Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, reddish, ruby, ruby-red, ruddy, scarlet |
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(satellite adjective) (used of hair or fur) of a reddish brown color; "red deer"; reddish hair" |
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Synonyms: reddish |
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(adjective) (of wine) deep reddish in color; "a red wine such as a claret or burgundy"; "a pinot noir is a red burgundy" |
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Antonyms: white |
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(noun) the quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood |
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Synonyms: redness |
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Related Words: Turkey red, alizarine red, cardinal, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry red, chromatic color, chromatic colour, chrome red, crimson, dark red, deep red, orange red, purplish red, ruby, scarlet, spectral color, spectral colour, vermilion |
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(noun) a tributary of the Mississippi River |
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Synonyms: Red River |
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Related Words: river |
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(satellite adjective) characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode |
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Synonyms: crimson, violent |
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(satellite adjective) (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment" |
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Synonyms: aflame, crimson, flushed, red-faced, reddened |
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(noun) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals |
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Synonyms: Bolshevik, Marxist, pinko |
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Related Words: commie, communist |
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