red-orange
- adjective
- /rɛdˈɔrɪndʒ/
- The towers of red-orange heat taper into threads of smoke, reaching high into the night sky.
- red-orange color
And here are my favorite orange slash red orange lip colors.
- And here are my favorite orange slash red orange lip colors.
Examples
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She pulled the red-orange Crayola out of the box, the color of her mommy's toenails, and colored in the top of the rainbow.
Fiction book (2000) -
In early fall, many specimens develop a good red-orange color.
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Under the rain, on the horizon, there is a strip of red-orange light, and I see movement of something on the water.
Fiction book (1991) -
What he could only assume were injury sites were a bright, screaming red-orange.
Fiction book (1992) -
She selected one, a red-orange ring.
Fiction book (1998) -
This deep lipstick color comes in several shades this season, and the red-orange version is the one I like best.
Blog text (23) -
It is the season of sleeping late while dreaming of red-orange trees shuddering in the evening breeze.
Blog text (21) -
The man was shuffling toward the freshly plowed earth, where it shone red-orange in the afternoon sun.
Academic text (2008) -
I'd got all decked out, of course, in a new sleeveless shift, silk with a pattern of red-orange fleur-de-lys and dancing brown figures on a gold background.
Fiction book (2000) -
Every fall, this sugar maple will turn a brilliant red-orange.
Synonyms
A reddish orange color like the skin of a ripe fruit
A color that is between orange and red
A color like orange with a little red
A bright orange color with a red tone like fire
An orange color that looks more red than yellow
A red color that looks partly orange
A bright red color with a strong orange tone
Antonyms
How Red
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word red-orange is simply the two color words red and orange put together. It is a handy memory clue: it means a color that looks like 'red' mixed with 'orange', like a sunset or a ripe fruit with a red tint.