red

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

• 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
    

• emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

• a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana

• red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  crimson , reddened , red-faced , flushed , violent , loss , red ink , Bolshevik , Marxist , bolshie , bolshy , Red , Red River , redness