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purplish-brown

purplish-brown

3.7
A brown color with a touch of purple
  • adjective
  • /ˈpɜrplɪʃ braʊn/
translation icon : marrón purpúreo
  • And the skin of the fruit is a deep purplish brown.

Examples

  • The fall leaves turned a beautiful purplish-brown as autumn progressed.

  • They were a squat humanoid race with purplish-brown skin.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Already the bath of radiation was turning my skin a purplish brown.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Her dress was a rich purplish-brown, perfect for the evening event.

  • The artist used a purplish-brown color for the background of his painting.

Synonyms

purple-brown
vspurplish-brown
2.9

A brown color that looks slightly purple

is the same meaning but uses a different word formation

How Purple

purple
229 1.0
mauve
10 5.8
purplish-brown
3.7
to brown
50 2.0

Surface Forms

purplish-brown positive

Morphology

purplish-brown = purplish + brown (transparent) = purplish + brown

A compound of 'purplish' and 'brown'; the meaning is directly a brown colour with a purple tinge.

Etymology

The word purplish-brown comes from putting purple and brown together with the ending -ish which means 'somewhat' or 'like', so it names a brown color with a touch of purple. A helpful picture is mixing a little purple paint into brown to remember the exact shade.