red

red

noun

Definition of RED

1

a person who rises up against authority <the reds demanded a violent overthrow of the government>

Synonyms insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, mutineer, red, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist

Related Words challenger, defier, insubordinate, oppositionist, recusant, refuser, resistant, resister; anarch, anarchist; discontent, extremist, malcontent, radical

Near Antonyms loyalist, patriot, supporter; counterinsurgent, counterrevolutionary, counterrevolutionist

an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state <the story of John Reed, the only American Red buried within the Kremlin>

Synonyms commie, comrade, Red, socialist

Related Words leftist, lefty, pink, pinko, social democrat; Bolshevik, Leninist, Leninite, Maoist, Marxist, Stalinist, Trotskyist, Trotskyite; extremist, radical, revolutionary, revolutionist

Antonyms capitalist