crimson

nouns

a deep and vivid red color

crimson, deep red, ruby

turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

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

blush, crimson, flush, redden

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

blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, red, reddish, ruby, ruby-red, ruddy, scarlet

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, violent

(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"

crimson, flushed, red, red-faced, reddened