reddish-purple
- adjective
- /ˈrɛdɪʃ ˈpɜrpl/
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púrpura rojizo
- Her mother looked down again, pondering an arrangement of red and reddish-purple stones.
- dark reddish-purple
Examples
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As autumn arrives, the leaves turn reddish-purple, creating a vibrant landscape.
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It was fleshy and looked like its name, except for its color, which was a reddish-purple.
Fiction book (1999) -
He had liked pansies, with their foolish gold and black faces; bachelor's buttons, particularly the dark reddish-purple.
Fiction book (1997) -
They may actually even turn reddish purple because with low magnesium, you're going to have poor uptake of phosphorus, right?
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The sun sets over the mountains, painting the sky a beautiful shade of reddish-purple.
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The artist chose a reddish-purple hue for the flowers in her painting to add warmth.
Synonyms
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2.8
A purple color with a clear red tint
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4.2
A deep purple color with a red tone used to show wealth or power
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2.2
A red color mixed with purple
A purple color that has some red in it
A color between red and purple that leans toward red
A purple color with a little red in it
A deep purple color mixed with red
A red color with a little purple in it
A red color with a touch of purple
A light purple color with a little red
A light purple color with a little red
How Red
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reddish-purple is built from red and purple with the small ending -ish meaning 'somewhat', as in greenish. So it names a color that is 'somewhat red' and 'somewhat purple', a shade between red and purple.