Definition

1. 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.

2. Noun:

   • A deep and vivid red color: The name of the color itself.

3. 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

1. (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
2. 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
3. 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

1. a deep and vivid red color

Verb

1. turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
   • The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by