beet-red
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.05 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of beet red.
Example Sentences
- "Two beet-red mailbags, plainly stamped "Deutsche Reichspost," although their tags were imprinted "On His Britannic Majesty's Service," were among the baggage of a passenger arriving from Bermuda yesterday on the American Clipper."
- "On the other hand, American Indian groups that have lobbied for years to drop the beet-red, wide-eyed logo, say it is a racially insensitive caricature."
- "My father’s youngest brother, Uncle Chul, shared the Lees’ famously bad reaction to liquor, which was to turn beet-red in the face, grow dizzy and finally get sick."
Inflected Forms
more beet-red (comparative)
most beet-red (superlative)