red – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of red

Adjective: red

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativeredder
Superlativereddest

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • The girl wore a red skirt.
  • He was wearing a red jacket.
  • Your colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose. [c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:]
  • The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows. [1954 July 29, J.R.R. Tolkien, “I: A Long-Expected Party”, in The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings; 1), →ISBN:]
  • Her hair had red highlights.
  • [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:]
  • I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.
  • "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 concessions that an undisguised liberal couldn’t get away with. https://web.archive.org/web/20061114093022/http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1998/vo14no16/vo14no16_dragon.htm
  • the red-black grand coalition in Germany
  • a red state
  • a red Congress
  • All my friends are Indians / All my friends are brown and red [1994, Soundgarden, Spoonman:]

Adjectives inflected like red

unmad, mad, mod, red, rad,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós
5. Proto-Germanic *raudaz
6. Proto-West Germanic *raud
7. Old English rēad
8. Middle English red
9. English red
10. Inherited from Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ- + *-ós.
11. Cognates
12. See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rood, rot, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud, Swedish röd, Faroese reyður, Icelandic rauður; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Finnish rauta, Estonian raud, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”). See: Dutch Adjectives 'rood', German Adjectives 'rot', Swedish Adjectives 'röd', Latin Adjectives 'ruber', Czech Adjectives 'rudý', Finnish Adjectives 'rauta'.

Verbs referencing "red"

German Adjectives rot.