Synonyms:
red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
Meaning: of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
cardinal, carmine
Meaning: a variable color averaging a vivid red
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
carmine
Meaning: color carmine
Usage examples
To dye a fine delicate pink, use a carmine saucer--the directions for dyeing come with the saucers.
There are fine ladies among them who adorn their legs with a number of pink bracelets and their back with carmine arabesques.
They shed shavings, sawdust and lampblack at every step, and from their clothes and hands and faces dripped the carmine paint.
For a moment, biting her carmine lip, she deplored inwardly the tyranny of the rigid principles governing the sale of her influence in high places.
She studied the delicate bloom of their cheeks, and wondered what mysterious proportions of white, ochre, and carmine she would have to use to obtain it.
But of all these things the young man thought nothing and saw nothing; for at the end of the marble avenue there arose a palace, the like of which was not in the four quarters of the earth--a palace of marble and gold and carmine and ultramarine--rising into the purple starry sky, and shining in the moonlight like a vision of Paradise.