crimson

Plural: crimsons

Noun

• a deep and vivid red color
• A deep, slightly bluish red.

Verb

Verb Forms: crimsoned, crimsoning, crimsons

• To make or become deep red, like the color of crimson.
• turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
• To become crimson or deep red; to blush.
• To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.

Adjective Satellite

• of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
• characterized by violence or bloodshed; - Andrea Parke; - Thomas Gray; - Hudson Strode
  • "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"
  • "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"
• (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
  • "crimson with fury"
  • "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"

Adj

• Having a deep red colour.
• Immodest.

Examples

• My face would CRIMSON with embarrassment if I made a spelling mistake in public.

Synonyms

blood-red, blush, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, deep red, flush, flushed, red, red-faced, redden, reddened, reddish, ruby, ruby-red, ruddy, scarlet, violent

Related Words

Chinese red, Indian red, Pompeian red, Turkey red, Venetian red, blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, cinnabar, claret, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, kermes, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine

Anagrams of crimson