Synonyms of the word

purplish

• adj. Somewhat purple in colour/color.

chromatic

• adj. Relating to or characterised by hue.
• adj. Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
• adj. (music) Related to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is…

purple

• n. A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta.
• n. Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority;…
• n. (by extension) Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings.
• n. Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog…
• n. The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension…
• n. (medicine) Purpura.
• n. Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
• n. Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia…
• n. A cardinalate.
• adj. Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue.
• adj. (US politics) Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support,…
• adj. (in Netherlands and Belgium) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
• adj. Imperial; regal.
• adj. Blood-red; bloody.
• adj. (of language) Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
• v. (intransitive) To turn purple in colour.

violet

• n. A bluish-purple colour.
• n. Viola, a genus of fragrant plants with white, purple or yellow flowers.
• n. Any of several plants that look like the plants of the genus Viola but are taxonomically unrelated to…
• adj. Having a bluish-purple colour.