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blue-purple

blue-purple

3.2
Purple with a touch of blue
  • adjective
  • /bluːˈpɜːrpl/
translation icon : azul púrpura
  • When she looked up again, the novel finished and the rules restored, the afternoon's storm was rising beyond the window, the thick blue-purple clouds making the yellow grass seem even brighter.
  • blue-purple clouds
  • blue-purple flowers

This is just an iridescent, kind of purpley, iridescent blue purple Topper.

Examples

  • The sky overhead was a boiling mass of blue-purple clouds, backlit by strong sunlight.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • This is just an iridescent, kind of purpley, iridescent blue purple Topper.

  • No, the like the light blue purple what the light blue one, the light blue one.

  • You can see how the red purple contains more red and the blue purple contains more blue.

  • Not in the pretty blue like yours, but a reddish-orange one and a dark blue-purple one... and only 4 bucks each!

    Blog text (9)
  • But the left of Eugene turns it to a blue-purple.

    Blog text (14)
  • In "similarly looks clean, unweathered by time; dominated by white and blue-purple, it's a cool abstraction, quite unlike her other legitimate train image from the period.

    Academic text (2007)
  • The sky was filled with blue-purple hues as the sun set behind the mountains.

  • She chose a blue-purple scarf to match her favorite dress.

  • The artist painted the landscape using blue-purple tones to create a dreamy atmosphere.

Synonyms

purplish
vsblue-purple
6 2.9

A color that is a little red and a little blue

is specifically a purple shade with a blue tint, not just purple-like
violet-blue
vsblue-purple
1 3.9

A blue color with a purple tint

is focused on purple tinged with blue rather than starting from blue
bluish-purple
vsblue-purple
3.0

A purple color with a little blue mixed in

is the same shade but uses a different word form
blue-violet
vsblue-purple
4.2

A color between blue and violet

is based on purple with a blue tint rather than violet
bluish-violet
vsblue-purple
2.7

A violet color with a little blue

is centered on purple with blue rather than violet as base
violet-colored
vsblue-purple
3.0

Having a purple color between blue and red

is always a purple shade that carries a blue tint
bluish-lilac
vsblue-purple
3.9

A pale purple color with a little blue in it

is similar but generally less pale and therefore deeper in tone

How Blue

indigo
1 4.0
violet
69 1.0
blue-purple
3.2
purple
229 1.0

Surface Forms

blue-purple positive

Morphology

blue-purple = blue + purple (transparent) = blue + purple

A straightforward hyphenated compound combining two colour terms; the meaning is directly the blend of blue and purple.

Etymology

Blue-purple is simply the two color words blue and purple joined together. Think of mixing paint: add a little blue to purple to get 'purple with a touch of blue', which is exactly what the color describes.