Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. 1 (&lit: English) Having a face that is the color red. 2 With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes. 3 # (context by extension English) embarrassed 4 # (context by extension English) inebriate 5 # (context by extension English) angry 6 # (context by extension English) flustered 7 # (context by extension English) exhausted alt. 1 (&lit: English) Having a face that is the color red. 2 With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes. 3 # (context by extension English) embarrassed 4 # (context by extension English) inebriate 5 # (context by extension English) angry 6 # (context by extension English) flustered 7 # (context by extension English) exhausted
WordNet
adj. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment" [syn: crimson, red, reddened, flushed]
having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset; "the blushing boy was brought before the Principal"; "her blushful beau"; "was red-faced with anger" [syn: blushful, blushing(a)]
Usage examples of "red-faced".
Ten minutes afterward we met a hot, red-faced man plunging down the mountain, making mighty strides, swinging his alpenstock ahead of him, and taking a grip on the ground with its iron point to support these big strides.
There was old Bick cursing for all he was worth, and a little red-faced buffer puffing out his cheeks in an armchair.
The royal cellarman was screaming, red-faced, at a man who had brought him a cask of malmsey instead of the port he had ordered.
The corpulent, red-faced officer occupied a cushion across from them, and Neem, the black dalf, snoozed at their feet.
Leave behind the Gymkhana Club, where red-faced expats-like-us drink and shout their repeated stories to one another, cigarettes waving.
Big, red-faced Henry Hackler enjoyed the sound of his own booming voice.
Red-faced and custom-tailored as always, Hagbut still spoke as if he disliked showing his teeth.
I cautiously open the door and see that Duane in fury appears to be reduced in size, a small square jigging knot of red-faced anger.
Nina Malapert appeared in her studio again, red-faced and breathless from fighting in the streets, to follow up her live coverage of the invasion with newly arrived information from the combined fleet currently approaching Logres.
THERE WERE FIVE OF THEM, and one, a cheery little red-faced man of about sixty, with toothpick-ends of waxed mustache, was Ike Mazzard, the magazine illustrator.
We looked in mute horror at all those frazzled, frequently pregnant young mums dragging their sobbing brats past another sugar counter, and all those ominously silent, red-faced fathers ready to explode at the first wrong word from their sulking, surly children, and we thought - we are better than that.
He had just given them places at the table when a very red-faced Gord came puffing up the stairs.
Two footmen that Edward recognized from the Palazzo Sessa hurried forward, red-faced from the cold, one to open the door and the second with a small step stool for Francesca.
Mildred warned, wagging a reproving finger at the red-faced old man, perched uncomfortably on the back of Judas.
I was drawin near to the Prince when a red-faced man in Millingtery close grabd holt of me and axed me whare I was goin all so bold?