cherry red

Lipstick tube shade

Cherry red is a vivid, slightly dark shade of red, like the color of ripe cherries.

The term appears in contexts ranging from fashion to medicine, where cherry red lips or skin can indicate carbon monoxide poisoning.

As a compound adjective: a cherry-red sports car, cherry-red lipstick.

Related

vermilion · tomato · garnet · candy apple · strawberry · incarnadine · apple · fire engine · jam · rose · lips · valentine · flush · wine · lacquer · satin · painted · juicy

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Opposites
color spectrum position

cherry redcyan

Blue-green hue

teal · ice blue · turquoise · aquamarine · kelly green

color temperature/warmth

cherry redice blue

Pale bluish-white shade

cool gray · steel blue · winter white · powder blue · slate gray

saturation and brightness

cherry redtaupe

Muted gray-brown hue

ecru · greige

Family

red, cherish, cherry, redness, cherries, cerise, cherrylike, cherrywood, cherry-red

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G