red mist
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Uncontrollable rage, anger sufficient to prevent clear thinking.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, mist.
Example Sentences
- "What was that tackle about? The red mist still descends on Beckham occasionally."
- "Slowly the red mist faded from before Tarzan’s eyes. Things began to take form—he was regaining the perspective of civilized man."
- "On the face of it, this appears to have fit into a pattern that seems familiar with Vettel's errors in recent times. In stressed moments, a sort of red mist seems to descend that reduces his capacity for rational thinking."
- "In that little office, seated before that wretched Do No Bend envelope, the red mist came down, and it wasn't a mist, it was a torrent."
- "Bellingham felt the red mist come down. He had been booked at the end of the first half after stamping into Dmitrijs Zelenkovs. Which only made his full-blooded slide challenge into Jurkovskis risky to say the least."
- "That red-mist moment prompted [James] Blake to dig properly into the workings of the music industry."