orange red

Thân thiện

The artist mixes orange red paint on her palette.

Definition

Noun: A vivid red color that sometimes has an orange tint or hue. It is a variable shade between a true red and a true orange.

Usage

This term is used to describe a specific, vivid color. It functions as a standard color name, often used in design, art, and descriptive writing. * The sunset painted the sky in brilliant streaks of orange-red. * The artist mixed cadmium red with a touch of yellow to achieve the perfect orange-red for the flower petals. * The warning light flashed an orange-red glow.

Advanced Usage

• As a color adjective: When used attributively before a noun, it is typically hyphenated.
  • She bought an orange-red scarf.
  • The orange-red leaves of the maple tree were stunning.

Variants and Related Words

• Vermilion: A brilliant red or scarlet pigment, often with an orange undertone, sometimes used synonymously with orange-red.
• Cinnabar: Refers both to a red mineral and the red-orange color derived from it.
• Scarlet: A bright red color, sometimes with a slight orange tinge, but often considered purer red than orange-red.
• Tangerine: A bright orange color, leaning more towards orange than red.

Synonyms

• Vermilion
• Cinnabar
• Scarlet (in some contexts)
• Red-orange

Antonyms

• Blue-green
• Cyan
• Teal

Học thuật

Noun

1. a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge

Từ đồng nghĩa

• scarlet
• vermilion