spectral colour vs red

red vs spectral colour

spectral colour and red both are nouns.

spectral colour is not an adjective while red is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
spectral colour	Yes	No	No	No
red	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, red is a hyponym of spectral colour; that is, red is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than spectral colour:

spectral colour: a color that has hue
red: red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

Other hyponyms of spectral colour include redness, orange, orangeness, salmon, yellow, yellowness, blond, blonde, green, greenness, viridity, blue, blueness, purple, purpleness, pink, brown, brownness, olive, pastel, complementary, complementary color.

spectral colour (noun)	red (noun)
a color that has hue	red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
	emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
	the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue

spectral colour (adjective)	red (adjective)
	(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
	of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
	characterized by violence or bloodshed

Difference between spectral colour and red

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