crimson
/'krimzn/
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Definition
Adjective:
- A deep, vivid red color: A strong, rich red color, often compared to the color of blood, rubies, or ripe cherries.
- Reddened, especially from emotion: Describes a face or skin that has turned a deep red color due to strong feelings like anger, shame, exertion, or embarrassment.
Noun:
- A deep and vivid red color: The name of the color itself.
Verb:
- To turn a deep red color: To become crimson, typically referring to a person's face flushing with emotion.
Examples of Usage
Adjective:
- She wore a beautiful crimson dress to the gala.
- His face was crimson with rage after hearing the news.
- The crimson sunset painted the sky in shades of red and purple.
Noun:
- The artist mixed several pigments to achieve the perfect crimson.
- The flag was a bold stripe of crimson against a white background.
Verb:
- She crimsoned when her mistake was pointed out in front of everyone.
- His cheeks crimsoned from the intense physical effort.
Advanced Usage
- Literary and descriptive use: "Crimson" is often used in literature and formal descriptions to evoke a sense of richness, intensity, or passion, more so than the simpler word "red."
- The novel described the crimson stains of the battlefield.
- "Crimson with": A common construction to indicate the cause of the reddening.
- He was crimson with fury.
- Her neck was crimson with sunburn.
Variants and Related Words
- Crimsoning (gerund/noun): The act of turning crimson.
- The crimsoning of her cheeks betrayed her embarrassment.
- Crimsoned (past tense/participle): Having turned crimson.
- His crimsoned face was a clear sign of his guilt.
Synonyms
- Adjective (color): Ruby, scarlet, vermilion, blood-red.
- Adjective (flushed): Flushed, reddened, blushing, florid.
- Verb: Blush, flush, redden.
Related Phrases and Idioms
- To see crimson: To become very angry.
- Whenever someone questions his authority, he sees crimson.
- Crimson tide: A poetic or dramatic term for bloodshed or a large flow of blood. (Note: Also a well-known proper noun for a sports team.)
- The revolution left a crimson tide in its wake.
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
- 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
Noun
- a deep and vivid red color
Verb
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
- The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by