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fuchsia

fuchsia

11 6.4
A bright color between pink and purple
  • noun
  • /ˈfjuːʃə/
translation icon : fucsia
  • It's punch pop, so it's a really bright fuchsia pink, which is pretty.
  • fuchsia-colored
  • bright fuchsia
  • wear fuchsia

It's basically a really pretty kind of fuchsia Berry colour, I would say.

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Examples

  • Paint your walls fuchsia, cover your sofa and denim swing for the fences.

  • Her full lips burnished with fuchsia lipstick.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • I want kind of like a bright but fuchsia kind of color.

  • Or you can wear black and fuchsia, or you can wear fuchsia.

  • Cute little fuchsia phone you got.

  • The design is bold and uses the fuchsia color as an important element.

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  • It's this really, really pretty fuchsia blusher.

  • I think I'm gonna do like a pinky fuchsia eyes similar to what she has here.

  • We wear them in mocha and black, dark purple and fuchsia.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • The artist chose to paint her new canvas in a vibrant fuchsia shade to convey joy.

Synonyms

magenta
vsfuchsia
3.7

Having a deep purplish red color

is brighter and more vivid rather than deep in tone
purplish-red
vsfuchsia
3.0

A red color with a touch of purple

leans toward a brighter, more vivid purplish red than this tint
purplish pink
vsfuchsia
5.8

A bright pink color with a touch of purple

is more firmly purplish red and less pink or delicate

Compounds

A small shrub with bright red, tube-shaped flowers that attract hummingbirds

Fuchsia coccinea
  • Specialized
9.9

A bush from Brazil with bright pink or red flowers

Fuchsia excorticata
  • Specialized
9.9

A small tree or shrub from New Zealand with dark red flowers and rough peeling bark

native fuchsia
  • New Zealand
8.4

A shrub or small tree from New Zealand with dark red flowers that grows up to 10 feet tall

tree fuchsia
  • New Zealand
8.6

A small New Zealand tree with dark red hanging flowers

How Vivid

magenta
  • Specialized
12 3.9
fuchsia
11 6.4
crimson
58 3.4
pink
43 1.0
rose
54 1.0

Surface Forms

fuchsia singular
fuchsias plural

Etymology

Fuchsia for the color comes from the fuchsia flower because the bloom has a bright purplish-red shade. So fuchsia now means that strong pink-purple color.