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purple-green

purple-green

4.8
Green with a purple shade
  • adjective
  • /ˈpɜrpl ɡrin/
translation icon : verde púrpura
  • The garden was filled with beautiful plants that had purple-green leaves.

Examples

  • They have gorgeous purple-green foliage, and best of all, they were on clearance.

    Blog text (15)

  • She had mannish hands with purple-green veins rising up along her fingers to her wrists, like earthworms, fat and portentous.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Andrew's eyes and lips were swollen, purple-green.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • During autumn, the trees displayed stunning purple-green hues against the blue sky.

  • The artist chose a purple-green palette for her painting, capturing the light in a unique way.

Synonyms

purplish-green
vspurple-green
5.4

A green color with a purple tint

means the same but uses a slightly different form of the term
purple-tinged
vspurple-green
4.2

Having a slight purple color

is specific to green rather than any main color

How Purple

purple
229 1.0
purplish
6 2.9
purple-green
4.8
greenish
14 1.0
green
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

purple-green positive

Morphology

purple-green = purple + green (transparent) = purple + green

A direct combination of two color adjectives; the meaning 'green tinged with purple' is literal and easily inferred from the components.

Etymology

Purple-green is simply the two color words purple and green joined together, so it means a 'green' color with a touch of 'purple'. A helpful way to remember it is like other pairs such as blue-green: the two words together name a mixed color, which is why purple-green describes green tinged with purple.