maroon

Plural: maroons

Noun

a person who is stranded (as on an island)
- "when the tide came in I was a maroon out there"
a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
an exploding firework used as a warning signal
An escaped black slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person.
A castaway; a person who has been marooned.
A rich dark red, somewhat brownish, color.
A rocket-propelled firework or skyrocket, often one used as a signal (for example, to summon the crew of a lifeboat or warn of an air raid).
An idiot; a fool.

Verb

Verb Forms: marooned, marooning, maroons

To abandon someone in an isolated or desolate place.
leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
- "the travellers were marooned"
leave stranded on a desert island without resources
- "The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"
To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a desert island.

Adjective Satellite

of dark brownish to purplish red

Adj

Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples.
Of a maroon color

Examples

He felt MAROONED on the Scrabble board with only consonants, unable to form a word.

Origin / Etymology

From French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”); see that entry for more.

Synonyms

brownish-red, strand, Alternative spelling of dumbass., Boeotian, Boschneger, Bush Negro, Charlie, Homer Simpson, Vulgar:, addle pate, addle-brain, addlehead, airhead, alcatote, arsehole, ass, assclown, asshat, asshead, asshole, asstard, asswipe, baboon, bayard, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead, berk, bimbo, birdbrain, blither, blockhead, blubberbrain, bobchin, bonehead, boob, bozo, brainlet, brickhead, bubble brain, bubblehead, bufflehead, buffoon, buttbreath, castaway, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, cittern-head, clart, clod, clodpate, clot, clown, crackhead, cretin, cuckoo, deadhead, der-brain, dildo, dill pickle, dim bulb, dimbo, dimbus, dimwit, ding dong, dingbat, dingleberry, dingwad, dip, dipshit, dipstick, dirtbrain, div, divvo, divvy, doldrum, dolt, donk, donkey dick, donut, doodle, doof, doofoid, doofus, dope, dork, dote, dotterel, drivel, drongo, drool bucket, dullard, dumb bunny, dumb cluck, dumb fuck, dumbass, dumbbell, dumbfuck, dumbfucker, dumbhead, dumble, dumbling, dumbnut, dumbo, dumbshit, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dunderpate, dupe, eejit, farthead, fathead, featherbrain, fenderhead, fiddle, fleabrain, fool, fopdoodle, fuck-knuckle, fucktard, fuckwit, fuzznut, galoot, geck, gig, gimboid, gink, gomer, gonk, goober, goof, goofball, goofy, goose, gooseberry, goosecap, gorbuson, gowk, gubbins, gudgeon, gump, ha'p'orth, ha'porth, halfwit, hammerhead, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, inbred, jackaninny, jackass, jamoke, jellybrain, jerk, jerkoff, jolterhead, jolthead, juggins, jughead, knothead, knucklehead, lackwit, lamebrain, log, loggerhead, lummox, lunk, lunkhead, mameluke (US (Italian-American), maroon, marooner, meatball, meathead, mental midget, mome, momo, mong, mongoloid, mongtard, monkey, moron, mouth breather, mug, muggins, mushhead, mutt, muttonhead, nimrod, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit, nitwit, noddy, noodlehead, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, numbskull, numps, numpty, numskull, nupson, oaf, peabrain, peagoose, peckerhead, pigwidgeon, pillock, pinhead, plank, plonker, prat, put, putz, retard, sap, saphead, schmo, schmuck, shit for brains, shitbrain, shithead, shitneck, shitwit, silly, simp, simpleton, slang), snapperhead, softhead, sot, space cadet, spanner, stupe, stupid, stupid-head, sucker, tard, thickhead, thicko, thickskull, tomfool, tonto, tool, toolbox, tosser, tosspot, turkey, twat, twerp, twit, wally, wantwit, wazzer, wazzock, witless wonder, yampy, yo-yo, zany

Scrabble Score: 8

maroon: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
maroon: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
maroon: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

maroon: valid Words With Friends Word