red
/rɛd
/- Dark red blood spilled from her arm and gathered in a pool on the ground.
- The dark red blood forms a glaring contrast to the sickly green of the flesh.
- He opened his mouth slightly trying to say something, but he only coughed out more dark red blood.
Synonyms
- Oshino's face was red with anger and embarrassment and he stormed off angrily.
- His body was shaking and his own face was red in anger and shame.
- The man's face was red from anger and he was about to carry on his yelling fit, but Ali began a coughing fit.
Synonyms
- His eyes were red and bloodshot and he looked worn and tattered with emotion.
- Jasmine, whose eyes were red and puffy and bloodshot, stood up, wiping her nose with the tissue in her hand.
- Rosalie had her hair was in a long single messy braid, and her eyes were red and bloodshot.
Synonyms
- Up close he could see she was quite pretty with flaming red hair and reddish brown eyes.
- A tall punk with flaming red hair had his arm slung tightly around her waist in a possessive manner.
- She spotted a woman with flaming red hair walking slightly in front of her.
Synonyms
- Each card is from a red suit but we do not know this: each of us sees only the suit of his own card.
- By agreement, if the card turned up to start the discard pile happens to be a wild card or a red three, it may be put back into the stock pile and another card turned up.
- If the card is red, the next player to the left turns over their card.
- These three grape varieties produce red wines which go lighter with age.
- As well as being the source of red Burgundy wines, it is also a backbone of Champagne blends.
- The principal grape used in the red wines of this region is Syrah.
- But drivers also fail to stop at red signals because they have misread a signal, or chosen to disregard it.
- This system automatically stops the train if it passes through a red signal.
- A fifth of Essex's roads have been given a red alert and are in urgent need of repair.
- Britain's countryside was placed on red alert yesterday as both city and rural dwellers were told to keep away from farmland.
- A senior Government vet says North Yorkshire should be on red alert to prevent an explosion of foot and mouth in the pig farming community.
- He said more than five farms had been liquidated and the balance sheets of the remaining farms were in the red.
- So, within a few days of my pay going into my bank account, I always was back in the red again.
Synonyms
- In the image, however, the shortest wavelengths are represented as blue, while the longest are coloured in red.
- Presumably this is to encourage us to stop ignoring any bill not coloured in red.
- Come here at sunset, when the colours flame in red and orange, bold and beautiful.
- Their daughter, Molly, wore a white dress and all her bridesmaids wore red.
- The voice belonged to a young woman dressed in bright red, a white scarf around her head, a bowl of water in her hands.
- To note one example, when a mother comes to understand her son better near the end of the film, she is wearing red.
- Mendoza is the most important region, particularly for reds.
- There is usually some producer somewhere in the world deliberately fashioning light reds in this style to be consumed chilled.
- Wine by the glass business is strong, too, he reports, and the bar offers eight white wines and seven reds.
- The minute the mercury soars, red wines, especially big reds, start to turn volatile and taste soupy and mawkish.
- All the great white wines are made from Chardonnay, all the great reds from Pinot Noir.
- Three reds remain but Hendry surprisingly concedes to leave his opponent just one frame from victory.
- Wood gained four points from a snooker on the last red which left him ideally positioned for a clearance.
- Traditionally, spies revolt against Labour governments because they fear the party is made up of unpatriotic reds.
- The fact is, fighting anarchists, reds and labor organizers played a very important part in developing modern forms of identification and police power.
Synonyms
Phrases
better dead than red (or better red than dead)
(as) red as a beetroot (beet)
red in tooth and claw
the red planet
a red rag to a bull
reds under the bed
see red
Derivatives
reddy
- So now I'm standing up to my shins in water that's being stained a sort of pungent reddy brown, and all around small fish and crabs are fighting one another to eat the eyes.
- She has reddy brown extremely long hair usually tied in a plait and she has two dreadlocks behind each ear.
- I don't know colours like maroon, Dude, what is maroon anyway, it's a reddy colour isn't it?
redly
- The ships became shadows concealed by the blinding glare of the morning sun which had just broken redly over the horizon, like a smouldering glim, new fallen from the forge that gave it life.
- Dae's eyes glowed redly up at him from its depths.
- Let the clouds drift over the red sun, sinking in blood, and sleep in a cradle of ice and terror until the dawn breaks redly over the ocean.
Origin
Old English rēad, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rood and German rot, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin rufus, ruber, Greek eruthros, and Sanskrit rudhira 'red'.
An Old English word which shares an ancient root with Latin rufus, Greek eruthros, and Sanskrit rudhira ‘red’. The colour red has traditionally been associated with radical political views, and from the 19th century particularly Communists. During the Cold War, when Americans feared reds under the bed or Communist sympathizers, the expression better dead than red was used to mean that the prospect of nuclear annihilation was preferable to that of a Communist society. The slogan was reversed by nuclear disarmament campaigners of the late 1950s as ‘better red than dead’. Something involving savage or merciless competition might be described as red in tooth and claw. The phrase came from Lord Tennyson's poem ‘In Memoriam’ (1854): ‘Nature, red in tooth and claw’. In Church calendars a saint's day or Church festival was distinguished by being written in red letters. This gives us a red letter day (early 18th century) for a pleasantly memorable, fortunate, or happy day. A less cheering use of red ink was customarily made to enter debit items and balances in accounts —which gives us in the red (early 20th century) to mean in debt or overdrawn.
The colour red is supposed to provoke a bull, and is the colour of the cape used by matadors in bullfighting. From this we say that something will be like a red rag to a bull (late 19th century). A red herring is something, especially a clue, which misleads or distracts you. Red herrings have been around since the 15th century and got their colour from being heavily smoked to preserve them. The pungent scent was formerly used to lay a trail when training hounds to follow a scent. The red light district of a town is one with a lot of businesses concerned with sex. The phrase is from the red light traditionally used as the sign of a brothel. See also paint. People have been complaining about red tape, or excessive bureaucracy, since the 1730s. Real red or pinkish-red tape is used to bind together legal and official documents. Americans sometimes talk of not having a red cent to their name. Red got attached to the cent in the mid 19th century and refers to the colour of the copper used to make the one cent coin. Ruddy is from Old English rud, a variant form of ‘red’. The word's use as a euphemism for bloody dates from the early 20th century.