red

1 having a healthy reddish skin tone the merry, red, smiling face of Santa Claus Synonyms of red blooming, florid, flush, full-blooded, glowing, ruddy, rosy, rubicund, sanguineWords Related to red bronzed, brown, suntanned, tanned; bloomy, blowsy (also blowzy), blushing, flushed, pink, pinkish, warm; cherubicNear Antonyms of red waxen, waxy; blanched, white, whitened; anemic, sick, sickly; bloodless, cadaverous; whey-faced, white-facedAntonyms of red ashen, ashy, doughy, livid, lurid, mealy, pale, paled, palish, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, sallow, sallowish, wan

2 having a notably high temperature the streams of red lava were especially spectacular at night Synonyms of red ardent, boiling, broiling, burning, fervent, fervid, fiery, piping hot, hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sultry, superheated, sweltering, torrid, ultrahot, white-hotWords Related to red blazing, glowing, igneous, molten, seething, sizzling; heated, overheated, reheated, warmed; snug, toasty, warm, warmish; feverish, flushed, inflamed (also enflamed); canicular, muggy, steamy, summerlike, summery, tropicalNear Antonyms of red chill, chilly, coldish, cool, coolish, nippy, snappy; blizzardly, frosty, snowy, subfreezing, subzero, wintry (also wintery); chilled, cooled, refrigerated, unheated; benumbed, numb, shiveringAntonyms of red algid, arctic, bitter, bone-chilling, cold, freezing, frigid, frozen, glacial, ice-cold, iced, icy

1 a person who rises up against authority the reds demanded a violent overthrow of the government Synonyms of red insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionistWords Related to red challenger, defier, insubordinate, oppositionist, recusant, refuser, resistant, resister; anarch, anarchist; discontent, extremist, malcontent, radicalNear Antonyms of red loyalist, patriot, supporter; counterinsurgent, counterrevolutionary, counterrevolutionist

2 cap 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 of red commie, comrade, Red, socialistWords Related to red leftist, lefty, pink, pinko, social democrat; Bolshevik, Leninist, Leninite, Maoist, Marxist, Stalinist, Trotskyist, Trotskyite; extremist, radical, revolutionary, revolutionistAntonyms of red capitalist