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purplish-white

purplish-white

4.4
White with a slight purple shade
  • adjective
translation icon : blanco purpúreo
  • She wore a dress made of soft purplish-white silk.

Examples

  • The rose petals faded from deep violet to a delicate purplish-white shade.

  • Under the moonlight, the clouds took on a purplish-white hue.

  • The walls were painted a soft purplish-white color.

  • Is that flower a purplish-white shade?

  • The artist chose a purplish-white paint to create a serene atmosphere in her landscape.

  • The flowers in the garden bloomed in a purplish-white hue that brightened the entire area.

  • I noticed a purplish-white mist rising as the sun set behind the mountains.

Synonyms

purple-white
vspurplish-white
3.5

White with a little purple in it

means the same but uses a different written form

Antonyms

black
∞ 1.0

Very dark in color like coal or the night

How Purple

purple
229 1.0
lavender
2.4
purplish-white
4.4
off-white
1 3.0
white
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

purplish-white positive

Morphology

purplish-white = purplish + white (transparent) = purplish + white

A straightforward hyphenated compound: 'purplish' (slightly purple) + 'white' yields a white colour with a slight purple tinge, which is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word purplish-white combines the color purple, the ending -ish, and white. The ending -ish means 'somewhat' or 'a little like', so purplish-white means 'white with a little purple'.