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Synonyms for Blood-red

Flagrantly immoral or unchaste:

Mixed or tinged with red; somewhat red.

Red or purplish-red; crimson

Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.

Containing or having the taste of cherries.

Of a deep bright red colour, like that of a cherry.

A deep-red, translucent variety of the mineral corundum, containing small amounts of chromium and valued as a gem.

of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

The definition of red is having the color on the end of the spectrum before orange.

The definition of ruddy is a person or thing with a rosy red color.

Words Related to Blood-red

Find another word for blood-red. In this page you can discover 27 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for blood-red, like: crimson, scarlet, reddish, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, ruby, ruby-red, bright-red and bright blue.

1. blood

noun. ['ˈblʌd'] the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets.

Synonyms

• bloodstream
• humour
• liquid body substance
• bodily fluid
• blood cell
• venous blood
• arterial blood
• blood group
• blood stream
• menstrual flow
• grume
• blood serum
• blood corpuscle
• humor
• serum
• cord blood
• blood type
• whole blood
• blood clot
• gore
• menorrhea
• body fluid
• menstrual blood
• lifeblood

Antonyms

• understock
• irregular
• disrepute
• nonstandard

Etymology

• blod (Middle English (1100-1500))

Rhymes with Blood Red

• hilton-head
• widespread
• purebred
• interbred
• thoroughbred
• infrared
• sffed
• retread
• overhead
• overfed
• misread
• misled
• instead
• biomed
• unwed
• unted
• unsaid
• unread
• spread
• sayed
• numed
• imbed
• embed
• behead
• tread
• thread
• szwed
• swed
• stead
• sped

2. blood

noun. ['ˈblʌd'] temperament or disposition.

Synonyms

• disposition

Antonyms

• ill humor
• original

Etymology

• blod (Middle English (1100-1500))

3. blood

noun. ['ˈblʌd'] a dissolute man in fashionable society.

Synonyms

• roue
• rake
• rip
• libertine
• rounder
• profligate
• debauchee

Antonyms

• starboard
• larboard
• obverse
• top

Etymology

• blod (Middle English (1100-1500))

4. blood

noun. ['ˈblʌd'] the descendants of one individual.

Synonyms

• descent
• side
• lineage
• blood line
• ancestry
• bloodline
• kinfolk
• stemma
• origin
• pedigree
• family
• family tree
• line of descent
• family line
• kinsfolk
• genealogy
• parentage
• folk
• sept
• line
• phratry

Antonyms

• leeward
• front
• rear
• windward

Etymology

• blod (Middle English (1100-1500))

5. red

adjective. ['ˈrɛd'] of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.

Synonyms

• ruddy
• crimson
• reddish
• cherry
• carmine
• blood-red
• scarlet
• chromatic
• cerise
• ruby
• cherry-red

Antonyms

• unhealthy
• pessimistic
• loss
• birth

Etymology

• hreddan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
• read (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

6. red

adjective. ['ˈrɛd'] characterized by violence or bloodshed.

Synonyms

• crimson
• violent

Antonyms

• ordinal
• unimportant
• colorlessness

Etymology

• hreddan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
• read (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

7. red

noun. ['ˈrɛd'] red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood.

Synonyms

• vermilion
• purplish red
• purplish-red
• cardinal
• cerise
• spectral colour
• cherry red
• Turkey red
• ruby
• alizarine red
• crimson
• carmine
• chromatic colour
• chromatic color
• orange red
• dark red
• cherry
• scarlet
• sanguine
• spectral color
• chrome red
• redness

Antonyms

• decompression
• unclasp
• pull
• standard

Etymology

• hreddan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
• read (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

8. red

adjective. ['ˈrɛd'] (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion.

Synonyms

• coloured
• flushed
• reddened
• colored
• red-faced
• colorful

Antonyms

• advantage
• refrain
• undercharge
• decompress

Etymology

• hreddan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
• read (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

9. Red

noun. a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana.

Synonyms

• Louisiana
• Lone-Star State
• Red River
• OK
• LA
• Texas
• TX
• Sooner State
• Oklahoma

10. red

noun. ['ˈrɛd'] emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries.

Synonyms

• bolshie
• bolshy
• Marxist
• radical

Antonyms

• negativeness
• negativity
• decrease
• increase

Etymology

• hreddan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
• read (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

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