Synonyms of the word

vermilion

• n. A vivid red synthetic pigment made of mercury sulfide.
• n. A vivid red or slightly orange colour.
• n. A type of red dye worn in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women.
• n. The red skin of the lips or its border with the skin of the face.
• adj. Having a brilliant red colour.
• adj. Having the color of the vermilion dye.
• v. (transitive) To color or paint vermilion.

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…

cinnabar

• n. A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment…
• n. A bright red colour tinted with orange.
• n. (countable) A species of moth, Tyria jacobaeae, having red patches on its predominantly black wings.
• n. "Cinnabar Panacea"; the Elixir of Life.
• adj. Of a bright red colour tinted with orange.

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.

redden

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

redness

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

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.

vermillion

• n. Alternative spelling of vermilion.
• adj. Alternative spelling of vermilion.