'Crimson' definitions:
Definition of 'crimson'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet]
adjective
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 [syn: crimson, red, violent]
adjective
(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" [syn: crimson, red, reddened, red-faced, flushed]
noun
verb
Definition of 'Crimson'
From: GCIDE
- Crimson \Crim"son\, a. Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red. "A crimson tide." --Mrs. Hemans. [1913 Webster]
- The blushing poppy with a crimson hue. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crimson'
From: GCIDE
- Crimson \Crim"son\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crimsoned (-z'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crimsoning.] To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden. [1913 Webster]
- Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crimson'
From: GCIDE
- Crimson \Crim"son\, v. t. To become crimson; to blush. [1913 Webster]
- Ancient towers . . . beginning to crimson with the radiant luster of a cloudless July morning. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crimson'
From: GCIDE
- Crimson \Crim"son\ (kr[i^]m"z'n), n. [OE. crimson, OF. crimoisin, F. cramoisi (cf. Sp. carmesi.) LL. carmesinus, fr. Ar. qermazi, fr. qermez crimson, kermes, fr. Skr. k[.r]mija produced by a worm; k?mi worm or insect + jan to generate; akin to E. kin. CF. Carmine, Kermes.] A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general. [1913 Webster]
- Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. --Is. i. 18. [1913 Webster]
- A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'crimson'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- blanch,
- blush,
- bricky,
- cardinal,
- carmine,
- carnation,
- carnelian,
- cerise,
- change color,
- cherry,
- cherry-colored,
- cherry-red,
- color,
- color up,
- damask,
- darken,
- ferruginous,
- fiery,
- fire-red,
- flame,
- flame-colored,
- flame-red,
- flaming,
- flush,
- glow,
- glowing,
- grow red,
- gules,
- henna,
- hot,
- incarmined,
- incarnadine,
- inflame,
- inflamed,
- infrared,
- iron-red,
- lake-colored,
- laky,
- lateritious,
- lipstick,
- lobster-red,
- look black,
- lurid,
- madder,
- mantle,
- maroon,
- miniate,
- pale,
- pink,
- port-wine,
- puce,
- red,
- red-dyed,
- red-ink,
- red-looking,
- redden,
- reddened,
- reddish,
- reddish-amber,
- reddish-brown,
- rose,
- rouge,
- rubicund,
- rubify,
- rubiginous,
- rubric,
- rubricose,
- ruby,
- ruby-colored,
- ruby-red,
- ruddied,
- ruddle,
- ruddy,
- rufescent,
- rufous,
- rust,
- rust-red,
- rusty,
- scarlet,
- squirm with self-consciousness,
- stammel,
- stammer,
- tile-red,
- Titian,
- Titian-red,
- turn color,
- turn pale,
- turn red,
- vermilion,
- vinaceous,
- warm,
- whiten,
- wine,
- wine-colored,
- wine-red