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red

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of 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, rosy, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine
Words Related to red

bronzed, brown, suntanned, tanned

bloomy, blowsy (also blowzy), blushing, flushed, pink, pinkish, warm

cherubic
Near Antonyms of red

waxen, waxy

blanched, white, whitened

anemic, sick, sickly

bloodless, cadaverous

whey-faced, white-faced
Antonyms 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, hot, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sultry, superheated, sweltering, torrid, ultrahot, white-hot
Words 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, tropical
Near Antonyms of red

chill, chilly, coldish, cool, coolish, nippy, snappy

blizzardly, frosty, snowy, subfreezing, subzero, wintry (also wintery)

chilled, cooled, refrigerated, unheated

benumbed, numb, shivering
Antonyms of red

algid, arctic, bitter, bone-chilling, cold, freezing, frigid, frozen, glacial, ice-cold, iced, icy

red

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of red

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, revolutionist
Words Related to red

challenger, defier, insubordinate, oppositionist, recusant, refuser, resistant, resister

anarch, anarchist

discontent, extremist, malcontent, radical
Near Antonyms of red

loyalist, patriot, supporter

counterinsurgent, counterrevolutionary, counterrevolutionist

2 capitalized 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, communist, comrade, socialist
Words Related to red

leftist, lefty, pink, pinko, social democrat

Bolshevik, Leninist, Leninite, Maoist, Marxist, Stalinist, Trotskyist, Trotskyite

extremist, radical, revolutionary, revolutionist
Antonyms of red

capitalist

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