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Synonyms for crimson
ˈkrɪm zən, -səncrim·son

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  1. crimson, ruby, deep redadjective

    a deep and vivid red color

    Synonyms:
    deep red, ruby

    Antonyms:
    neutral, uncoloured, uncolored, achromatic, bloodless

  2. red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarletadjective

    of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

    Synonyms:
    ruby, sanguine, rubicund, flushed, cherry-red, scarlet, reddish, red-faced, violent, red, blood-red, reddened, florid, carmine, ruddy, cherry, cerise, ruby-red

    Antonyms:
    uncolored, achromatic, uncoloured, bloodless, neutral

  3. crimson, red, violentadjective

    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

    Synonyms:
    ruby, wild, fierce, cherry-red, scarlet, reddish, red-faced, tearing, violent, flushed, blood-red, reddened, trigger-happy, carmine, vehement, cerise, ruddy, cherry, red, ruby-red

    Antonyms:
    uncolored, achromatic, uncoloured, neutral, bloodless

  4. crimson, red, reddened, red-faced, flushedverb

    (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"

    Synonyms:
    ruby, rosy, ablaze(p), blushing(a), cherry-red, scarlet, reddish, red-faced, violent, flushed, blood-red, reddened, inflamed, carmine, cerise, rose-cheeked, ruddy, cherry, blushful, red, ruby-red, rosy-cheeked

    Antonyms:
    uncoloured, bloodless, achromatic, neutral, uncolored

  5. blush, crimson, flush, reddenverb

    turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

    "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"

    Synonyms:
    scour, sluice, purge, blush, even out, level, redden, flush, even

    Antonyms:
    neutral, uncolored, uncoloured, achromatic, bloodless

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "crimson":

    purple

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How to use crimson in a sentence?

  1. Carl Sandburg:

    I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

  2. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

    'Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, and death. A word can send The crimson colour hurrying to the cheek. Hurrying with many meanings; or can turn The current cold and deadly to the heart. Anger and fear are in them; grief and joy Are on their sound; yet slight, impalpable:-- A word is but a breath of passing air.

  3. Alan Garber:

    As President Faust has indicated to members of the Harvard community who have made inquiries, she and I both learned of this issue from today’s Crimson, she has asked staff to get to the bottom of how these conversations started, and to learn more about where matters currently stand.


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