red

1 having a healthy reddish skin tone the merry, red, smiling face of Santa Claus Synonyms blooming, florid, flush, full-blooded, glowing, ruddy, rosy, rubicund, sanguineRelated Words bronzed, brown, suntanned, tanned; bloomy, blowsy (also blowzy), blushing, flushed, pink, pinkish, warm; cherubicNear Antonyms waxen, waxy; blanched, white, whitened; anemic, sick, sickly; bloodless, cadaverous; whey-faced, white-facedAntonyms 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 ardent, boiling, broiling, burning, fervent, fervid, fiery, piping hot, hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sultry, superheated, sweltering, torrid, ultrahot, white-hotRelated Words 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 chill, chilly, coldish, cool, coolish, nippy, snappy; blizzardly, frosty, snowy, subfreezing, subzero, wintry (also wintery); chilled, cooled, refrigerated, unheated; benumbed, numb, shiveringAntonyms 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 insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionistRelated Words challenger, defier, insubordinate, oppositionist, recusant, refuser, resistant, resister; anarch, anarchist; discontent, extremist, malcontent, radicalNear Antonyms 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 commie, comrade, Red, socialistRelated Words leftist, lefty, pink, pinko, social democrat; Bolshevik, Leninist, Leninite, Maoist, Marxist, Stalinist, Trotskyist, Trotskyite; extremist, radical, revolutionary, revolutionistAntonyms capitalist