carmine

carmine is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple.
2. noun. A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting.
3. noun. The essential coloring principle of cochineal, extracted as a purple-red amorphous mass. It is a glucoside and possesses acid properties; -- hence called also carminic acid.
4. noun. a variable color averaging a vivid red

   Synonyms: cardinal

5. verb. color carmine
6. adjective. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

   Synonyms: cerise, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby, ruddy, scarlet

Synonyms

cardinal, cerise, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby, ruddy, scarlet

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in carmine:

armenic, ceriman, crimean, mercian

Common word forms

carmines

Words from these letters

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