Synonyms of red

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adjective

ˈred 

1

as in glowing

having a healthy reddish skin tone

the merry, red, smiling face of Santa Claus

Synonyms & Similar Words

• glowing
• tanned
• ruddy
• brown
• flush
• warm
• rosy
• pink
• blooming
• sanguine
• florid
• flushed
• blushing
• rubicund
• pinkish
• bronzed
• full-blooded
• suntanned
• blowsy
• bloomy
• cherubic

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pale
• white
• ashen
• pallid
• sallow
• ashy
• pasty
• lurid
• wan
• livid
• palish
• mealy
• peaked
• doughy
• waxy
• peaky
• waxen
• whitened
• blanched
• sallowish
• anemic
• sickly
• paled
• sick
• bloodless
• cadaverous
• white-faced
• whey-faced

2

as in boiling

having a notably high temperature

the streams of red lava were especially spectacular at night

Synonyms & Similar Words

• boiling
• searing
• hot
• burning
• molten
• fiery
• white-hot
• heated
• warm
• red-hot
• warmed
• fervent
• ardent
• scorching
• piping hot
• glowing
• sweltering
• broiling
• sultry
• fervid
• torrid
• superheated
• roasting
• blazing
• scalding
• seething
• igneous
• sizzling
• ultrahot
• tropical
• flushed
• inflamed
• overheated
• warmish
• toasty
• feverish
• steamy
• reheated
• snug
• summery
• muggy
• canicular
• summerlike

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cold
• frozen
• icy
• arctic
• iced
• bitter
• freezing
• glacial
• ice-cold
• frigid
• cool
• chilly
• snowy
• snappy
• frosty
• chill
• nippy
• wintry
• cooled
• algid
• coolish
• subzero
• chilled
• refrigerated
• bone-chilling
• coldish
• unheated
• shivering
• numb
• subfreezing
• blizzardly
• benumbed

red

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noun

1

as in rebel

a person who rises up against authority

the reds demanded a violent overthrow of the government

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rebel
• insurgent
• revolutionary
• revolter
• mutineer
• challenger
• revolutionist
• insurrectionist
• resistant
• insurrectionary
• resister
• anarchist
• discontent
• recusant
• extremist
• oppositionist
• insubordinate
• radical
• defier
• refuser
• anarch
• malcontent

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• patriot
• supporter
• loyalist
• counterrevolutionary
• counterinsurgent
• counterrevolutionist

2

as in communist

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 & Similar Words

• communist
• comrade
• socialist
• pink
• commie
• leftist
• Bolshevik
• Marxist
• radical
• lefty
• pinko
• social democrat
• Maoist
• Trotskyite
• revolutionary
• Leninist
• extremist
• Stalinist
• Trotskyist
• revolutionist
• Leninite

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• capitalist

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of red

Adjective

The company, which first became interested in the site 18 months ago, was attracted to the Wonder Bread Building’s history, its red brick facade and its location near Petco Park, Schalk said. — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026

Sinner, a lanky twenty-four-year-old Italian with red hair, sharp elbows, and ground strokes like shotgun blasts, had won thirty consecutive matches and was the overwhelming favorite. — Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Noun

Now, the city’s spectacle in the sky will once again glow in neon red. — Rashad Alexander august 17, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2026

The Tudors’ new emblem was the Tudor Rose, a fusion of the red of Lancaster and the white of York. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026

Phrases Containing red

• red alert
• red flag
• red hot
• red in tooth and claw
• red light
• see red