| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  r d |
| NOUN: | 1a. The hue of the long-wave end of the visible spectrum, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 630 to 750 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue resembles that of blood; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues. b. A pigment or dye having a red hue. c. Something that has a red hue. 2a. often Red A Communist. b. A revolutionary activist. | | ADJECTIVE: | Inflected forms: red·der, red·dest
1. Having a color resembling that of blood. 2. Reddish in color or having parts that are reddish in color: a red dog; a red oak. 3a. Having a reddish or coppery skin color. b. often Red Offensive Of or being a Native American. 4. Having a ruddy or flushed complexion: red with embarrassment. 5. often Red Communist. | | IDIOM: | in the red Operating at a loss; in debt. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old English r ad. See reudh- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | red ly —ADVERB
redness —NOUN
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