Skip to main content
fuchsia

fuchsia

13 6.4
A bright color between pink and purple
  • noun
  • /ˈfjuːʃə/
: 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.

Autoplay Next

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.

    Blog text (3)
  • 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
5 3.7

Having a deep purplish red color

is brighter and more vivid rather than deep in tone
purplish pink
vsfuchsia
1 5.8

A bright pink color with a touch of purple

is more firmly purplish red and less pink or delicate
purplish-red
vsfuchsia
3.0

A red color with a touch of purple

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

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
6 3.9
fuchsia
13 6.4
crimson
11 3.4
pink
172 1.0
rose
3 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.