redder

Adjective

red (comparative redder, superlative reddest)

1. Of a red hue.
   • The girl wore a red skirt.
2. Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
   • Her hair had red highlights.
3. Having a redder hue than usual due to embarrassment, anger, sunburn, etc.; flushed.
   • [T]he sun was shining on a happy crowd. It shone on white hats and red faces. It shone on ice lollies and melted them.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 23
4. Having a brown color.
5. Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)
   • I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.
6. (capitalized, often) Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
   • "Only Nixon could go to China" was the refrain of conventional wisdom during Richard Nixon’s 1972 official visit to Mao Tse-tung’s regime. Nixon’s anti-communist credentials, however dubious, provided useful camouflage as he opened diplomatic relations with Red China and made breathtaking...

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