Synonyms of the word

crimson

• n. A deep, slightly bluish red.
• adj. Having a deep red colour.
• adj. Having loose morals.
• v. to blush.
• v. To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.

blood-red

• adj. Bright red in color, like the color of fresh blood.

bloody

• adj. Covered in blood.
• adj. Characterised by bloodshed.
• adj. (rare in US, Canada, common in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Used as an intensifier.
• adj. (dated) Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.
• adv. (rare in US, Canada, common in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Used to intensify what follows…
• v. To draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.
• v. To demonstrably harm the cause of an opponent.
• n. (casual) bloody mary.

blush

• n. An act of blushing.
• n. A glow; a flush of colour.
• n. (figuratively) Feeling or appearance of optimism.
• n. (uncountable, countable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks.
• n. A color between pink and cream.
• n. (chiefly US) A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation.
• v. (intransitive) To become red in the face due to shyness, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.
• v. (intransitive) To become red.
• v. (transitive) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
• v. (transitive) To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).
• v. (transitive) To express or make known by blushing.
• v. (intransitive) To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
• n. The collective noun for a group of boys.

carmine

• n. A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its…
• n. A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.
• adj. Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.

cerise

• n. A deep, bright red colour tinted with pink.
• adj. Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.

cherry

• n. A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
• n. Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bears cherries.
• n. The wood of a cherry tree.
• n. Cherry red.
• n. (slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
• n. (graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
• n. (cricket) A cricket ball.
• adj. Containing or having the taste of cherries.
• adj. Of a bright red colour.
• adj. (informal, often of cars) In excellent condition; mint condition.

chromatic

• adj. Relating to or characterised by hue.
• adj. Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
• adj. (music) Related to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is…

color

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
• n. (in the plural) Gang insignia.
• n. The system of color television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
• v. To give something color.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent…

colored

• adj. Having a color.
• adj. Having a particular color or kind of color.
• adj. Having prominent colors; colorful.
• adj. Influenced pervasively but subtly.
• adj. (US, now dated and potentially offensive) Of skin color other than the white; in particular: black.
• adj. (South Africa, potentially offensive) Of neither black nor white skin color.
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
• n. (US, now dated and offensive) A colored person.
• n. (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of color.

colorful

• adj. Possessing prominent and varied colors.
• adj. Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.
• adj. (euphemistic) Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language).

colour

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. The system of colour television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or façade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
• v. To give something colour.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two…

coloured

• adj. British spelling standard spelling of colored.
• n. British spelling standard spelling of colored.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of colour.

discolor

• v. (American) To change or lose color.

discolour

• v. (British spelling, Canadian, transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of discolor (US).

flush

• n. A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc.
• v. (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
• v. (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
• adj. Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
• adj. Wealthy or well off.
• adj. (typography) Short for flush left and right; a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
• adj. Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright.
• adj. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
• n. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
• n. Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
• n. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind;…
• n. Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
• n. A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
• v. (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
• v. (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
• v. (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or…
• v. (transitive) To cause to blush.
• v. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
• v. (transitive) To excite, inflame.
• v. (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
• v. (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer) of its contents.
• v. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
• v. To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
• v. (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
• v. (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient,…
• v. (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which,…
• n. (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.

flushed

• adj. Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of flush.

red

• adj. Having red as its color.
• adj. (of hair) Having an orange-brown colour; ginger.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”).
• adj. (often capitalized) Left-wing, especially socialist or communist.
• adj. (US, modern) Supportive of or dominated by the political party represented by the color red, especially…
• adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations.
• adj. (US, modern) Of, pertaining to, or run by (a member of) the political party represented by the color red,…
• adj. (Britain) Supportive of the Labour Party.
• adj. (politics) Related to the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
• adj. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum…
• adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of red.
• n. (countable and uncountable) Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible…
• n. (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik,…
• n. (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
• n. (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
• n. (derogatory, offensive) An Amerind.
• n. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
• n. (informal) A red light (a traffic signal).
• n. (Ireland, Britain, beverages, informal) red lemonade.
• n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
• n. (US, colloquial, uncountable) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red").
• v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of rede.
• v. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of redd.
• v. (transitive, Pennsylvania) Alternative spelling of redd.

red-faced

• adj. Used other than as an idiom. Having a face that is the color red.
• adj. With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.

redden

• v. (intransitive) To become red or redder.
• v. (transitive) To make red or redder.

reddened

• adj. Made red.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of redden.

reddish

• adj. Somewhat red.

redness

• n. The quality of being red in color.
• n. A red discoloration.

ruby

• n. A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
• n. (obsolete) A red spinel.
• n. A deep red colour.
• n. (uncountable, printing, Britain, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as…
• n. A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
• n. A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.
• adj. Of a deep red colour.
• v. (transitive, poetic) To make red; to redden.
• n. A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese or Japanese characters.

ruddy

• adj. Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.
• adj. (Britain, slang) A mild intensifier.
• n. (informal) ruddy duck.
• v. (transitive) To make reddish in colour.

scarlet

• n. A bright red, slightly orange colour.
• n. Cloth of a scarlet color.
• adj. Of a bright red colour.
• adj. Sinful or whorish.
• v. To dye or tinge with scarlet.

violent

• adj. Involving extreme force or motion.
• adj. Involving physical conflict.
• adj. Likely to use physical force.
• adj. Intensely vivid.
• adj. (obsolete) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To urge with violence.
• n. (obsolete) An assailant.