Definition of Red

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"
    - red ink
  • emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
    - marxist
  • a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana
    - red river
  • red color or pigment
    the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

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"
    - red faced
  • 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
  • of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange)
    resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
    - blood red - cherry red - ruby red
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Unscramble red

5 unscramble word found using the letters red.

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