Antonyms for in red
Grammar : Adj, noun |
Spell : red |
Phonetic Transcription : rɛd |
Definition of in red
Origin :- Old English read "red," from Proto-Germanic *rauthaz (cf. Old Norse rauðr, Danish rød, Old Saxon rod, Old Frisian rad, Middle Dutch root, Dutch rood, German rot, Gothic rauþs). As a noun from mid-13c.
- The Germanic words are from PIE root *reudh- "red, ruddy" (cf. Latin ruber, also dialectal rufus "light red," mostly of hair; Greek erythros; Sanskrit rudhira-; Avestan raoidita-; Old Church Slavonic rudru, Polish rumiany, Russian rumjanyj "flushed, red," of complexions, etc.; Lithuanian raudas; Old Irish ruad, Welsh rhudd, Breton ruz "red"). The only color for which a definite common PIE root word has been found. The initial -e- in the Greek word is because Greek tends to avoid beginning words with -r-.
- Along with dead, bread (n.), lead (n.1), the vowel shortened in Middle English. The surname Read/Reid retains the original Old English long vowel pronunciation and is the corresponding surname to Brown-, Black, White.
- The color designation of Native Americans in English from 1580s. The color as characteristic of "British possessions" on a map is attested from 1885. Red-white-and-blue in reference to American patriotism, from the colors of the flag, is from 1840; in a British context, in reference to the Union flag, 1852. The red flag was used as a symbol of defiance in battle on land or sea from c.1600. To see red "get angry" is an American English expression first recorded 1898. Red rover, the children's game, attested from 1891. Red light as a sign to stop is from 1849, long before traffic signals. As the sign of a brothel, it is attested from 1899. As a children's game (in reference to the traffic light meaning) it is recorded from 1953.
- Red-letter day (late 14c.) was originally a saint's day, marked on church calendars in red letters. Red ball signifying "express" in railroad jargon is 1904, originally (1899) a system of moving and tracking freight cars. Red dog, type of U.S. football pass rush, is recorded from 1959. Red meat is from 1808. Red shift in spectography is first recorded 1923. Red carpet "sumptuous welcome" is from 1934, but the custom for dignitaries is described as far back as Aeschylus ("Agamemnon"); it also was the name of a type of English moth.
- As in insolvent : adj financially ruined
- As in in the red : adj operating at a loss
- As in down-and-out : adj destitute
- As in shortfall : noun deficit; imperfection
- As in debt : noun money owed to others
- As in deficit : noun shortage of something needed, required
- As in deficit spending : noun spending in excess of revenue or income
Synonyms for in red
- albatross
- arrearage
- arrears
- at a loss
- bad news
- baggage
- bankrupt
- beaten
- beggared
- behindhand
- below the line
- bill
- bite
- broke
- broken
- budget deficit
- busted
- capital
- check
- chit
- claim
- commitment
- compensatory spending
- credit
- cuff
- damage
- dead horse
- debenture
- debit
- debt
- debt explosion
- defalcation
- default
- defaulting
- defeated
- defectiveness
- deficiency
- deficit
- deficit financing
- delinquent
- derelict
- destitute
- due
- due bill
- dues
- duty
- encumbrance
- failed
- finished
- flaw
- foreclosed
- impoverished
- in arrears
- in Chapter 11
- in Chapter 13
- in debt
- in dire straits
- in hock
- in receivership
- in the gutter
- in the hock
- in the hole
- in the poorhouse
- in the red
- inadequacy
- incompleteness
- indebted
- indebtedness
- insolvent
- insufficience
- insufficiency
- invoice
- IOU
- lack
- liability
- losing money
- loss
- lost
- manifest
- megadebt
- moneyless
- mortgage
- needy
- negative cash flow
- no assets
- nonpaying
- note
- obligation
- on the rocks
- on the skids
- out of funds
- out of money
- outcast
- outstandings
- overspending
- paucity
- paying out in excess of income
- penniless
- poverty-stricken
- price tag
- promissory note
- pump priming
- receipt
- reckoning
- red ink
- responsibility
- ruined
- scantiness
- score
- shortage
- shortcoming
- shortfall
- strapped
- tab
- taken to the cleaners
- tally
- to the bad
- unbalanced
- underage
- undone
- unprofitably
- vagabond
- vagrant
- voucher
- wiped out
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