1. (

• red ,
• redness

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

2. (

• Red ,
• Red_River

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

3. (

• Bolshevik ,
• Marxist ,
• red ,
• bolshie ,
• bolshy

) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries ;

4. (

• loss ,
• red_ink ,
• red

) 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" ;

1. (

• red ,
• reddish ,
• ruddy ,
• blood-red ,
• carmine ,
• cerise ,
• cherry ,
• cherry-red ,
• crimson ,
• ruby ,
• ruby-red ,
• scarlet

) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies ;

2. (

• crimson ,
• red ,
• violent

) 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. (

• crimson ,
• red ,
• reddened ,
• red-faced ,
• flushed

) (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" ;