From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
red
adj 1: of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to
orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or
tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy,
blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red,
crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet]
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 [syn: crimson, red, violent]
3: (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"
[syn: crimson, red, reddened, red-faced, flushed]
n 1: red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the
hue of blood [syn: red, redness]
2: a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from
Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through
Louisiana [syn: Red, Red River]
3: emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals
or revolutionaries [syn: Bolshevik, Marxist, red,
bolshie, bolshy]
4: 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" [syn: loss, red
ink, red] [ant: gain]