ALIZARIN Synonyms

• a variable color averaging a vivid red

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

• color carmine

• a dark purplish-red color

• dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine

• drink claret

• a deep and vivid red color

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

• characterized by violence or bloodshed

• (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion

• turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

• any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive

• a person who is stranded (as on an island)

• a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color

• an exploding firework used as a warning signal

• of dark brownish to purplish red

• leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue

• leave stranded on a desert island without resources

• a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem

• a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers

• a deep and vivid red color

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

• a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge

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

• a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge

• of a vivid red to reddish-orange color

• color vermilion

• an orange-red crystalline compound used in making red pigments and in dyeing