red in English dictionary

  • red

    Meanings and definitions of "red"

    • (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
    • (archaic) Simple past tense and past participle of rede.
    • (colloquial) Alternative spelling of redd.
    • (transitive, Pennsylvania) Alternative spelling of redd.
    • Of hair, having an orange-brown colour; ginger.
    • Leftwing, socialist, or communist.
    • (US, modern) Supportive of or dominated by the Republican Party.
    • (US, modern) Of, pertaining to, or run by (a member of) the Republican Party.
    • (UK) Supportive of the Labour Party.
    • (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
    • (countable and uncountable) Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters.
    • (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
    • (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
    • (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
    • adjective
      Having red as its color.
    • adjective
      (of hair)
      Having an orange-brown colour; ginger.
    • adjective
      (card games, of a card)
      Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)
    • adjective
      (often capitalized)
      Left-wing, especially socialist or communist.
    • adjective
      (US, modern)
      Supportive of or dominated by the political party represented by the color red, especially the U.S. Republican Party.
    • adjective
      (chiefly derogatory, offensive)
      Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations
    • adjective
      (US, modern)
      Of, pertaining to, or run by (a member of) the political party represented by the color red, especially the U.S. Republican Party.
    • adjective
      (Britain)
      Supportive of the Labour Party.
    • adjective
      (politics)
      Related to the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
    • adjective
      (astronomy)
      Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
    • adjective
      (particle physics)
      Having a color charge of red.
    • noun
      (countable and uncountable)
      Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc.
    • noun
      (countable)
      A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; ( usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
    • noun
      (countable, snooker)
      One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
    • noun
      (countable and uncountable)
      Red wine.
    • noun
      (slang)
      The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
    • noun
      (informal)
      A red light (a traffic signal)
    • noun
      (Ireland, Britain, beverages, informal)
      red lemonade
    • noun
      (particle physics)
      One of the three color charges for quarks.
    • noun
      (US, colloquial, uncountable)
      chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red")
    • verb
      (archaic)
      simple past tense and past participle of [i]rede[/i]
    • verb
      (colloquial)
      Alternative spelling of [i]redd[/i]
    • verb
      (transitive, Pennsylvania)
      Alternative spelling of [i]redd[/i]
    • (in) the red
    • (being in or going into) the red
    • red (color, colour)
    • The colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white. A primary colour in the additive colour system, and a secondary colour in the subtractive colour system. It is the complementary colour of cyan.
    • colour
    • socialist, communist
    • of hair: orange-brown
    • left-wing, socialist or communist
    • Having red as its colour.
    • having red as its colour
    • 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
    • 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"
    • adjective
      of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
    • noun
      emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
    • noun
      red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
    • noun
      the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the company operated in the red last year"

    Synonyms of "red" in English dictionary

    flushed, carmine, redness are the top synonyms of "red" in the English thesaurus.

    Antonyms of "red" in English dictionary

    gain, green are the top antonyms of "red" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of red

    • lm  liczba mnoga reds red, stopień wyższy more ~
    • red ( third-person singular simple present reds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redded)
    • red ( countable and uncountable;  plural  reds)
    • red ( comparative redder, superlative reddest)
    • red (comparative redder, superlative reddest)
    • red (countable and uncountable, plural reds)
    • red (third-person singular simple present reds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redded)
  • Red

    Meanings and definitions of "red"

    • A Communist
    • A supporter of a sports team who wears a red strip.
    • Communist
    • adjective
      Communist
    • noun
      A Communist
    • noun
      A supporter of a sports team who wears red as part of their kit.
    • proper
      A nickname given to someone who has or had red hair.
    • Red (Norway)
    • noun
      a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana

    Synonyms of "red" in English dictionary

    Another word for "red" in the English thesaurus is Red River.

    • Red River

      a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana

    Grammar and declension of red

    • Red ( plural  Reds)
    • Red (plural Reds)
  • RED

    Meanings and definitions of "red"

    • noun
      (acronym)
      Reverse electrodialysis.

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