beet red
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.05 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of beetroot red (“deep purplish red”).
Canadian usage; American usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "She felt terribly congested, her hands started to swell and her face turned beet red."
- "His players, the Hustlin’ Owls, known as Danny’s Boys to the locals, strained to hear the instructions Miles whispered. They took their cues from the color of his bald head, which turns crimson when embarrassed, scarlet when angry and beet red when ready to explode."
- "If you suddenly look in the mirror one day, and the whole half of the white part of your eye is beet red, then you're thinking, 'What on earth is happening here?'"
Usage
- Canadian usage
- American usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
Inflected Forms
beet reds (plural)
more beet red (comparative)
most beet red (superlative)