Synonyms of the word

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.

blood-red

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

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…

corundum

• n. (mineralogy) An extremely hard mineral, a form of aluminum oxide with the chemical formula Al₂O₃, that…

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.

gem

• n. A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.
• n. (figuratively) any precious or highly valued thing or person.
• n. Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its…
• n. (obsolete) a gemma or leaf-bud.
• n. a type of geometrid moth, Orthonama obstipata.
• n. (computing) A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.
• n. (uncountable, printing, uncommon, obsolete) A size of type between brilliant (4-point) and diamond (4½-point),…
• v. (transitive) To adorn with, or as if with, gems.

jewel

• n. A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.
• n. A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones;…
• n. (figuratively) Anything considered precious or valuable.
• n. A bearing for a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone.
• n. (slang) The clitoris.
• v. To bejewel; to decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems.

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.

reddish

• adj. Somewhat red.

redness

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

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.