SkyfireDict

crimson   (TTS Sound)

The noun crimson has 1 sense

• crimson, ruby, deep red -- (a deep and vivid red color)

The verb crimson has 1 sense

• blush, crimson, flush, redden -- (turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by")

The adj crimson has 3 senses

• red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet -- (of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies)


• crimson, red, violent -- (characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode)


• crimson, red, reddened, red-faced, flushed -- ((especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment")