VERMILLION Synonyms

• rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material

• a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy

• To stop working (of an electronic device)

• a dark purplish-red to blackish-red color

• a former province of eastern France that is famous for its wines

• red table wine from the Burgundy region of France (or any similar wine made elsewhere)

• 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

• wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry

• any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood

• a red fruit with a single hard stone

• a red the color of ripe cherries

• 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 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 color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red

• any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

• pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began

• a dusty pink color

• of something having a dusty purplish pink color

• 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

• of a vivid red to reddish-orange color

• a heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury

• large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort

• of a vivid red to reddish-orange color

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

• of a vivid red to reddish-orange color

• color vermilion