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lilac-colored

lilac-colored

3.4
A pale, light purple color that looks soft
  • adjective
  • /ˈlaɪləkˌkʌlərd/
  • US
translation icon : color liláceo
  • She wore a lovely lilac-colored dress that brightened up the garden party.

There's then a lavender, lilac, pale pastel lilac colour.

Examples

  • Like light green, springy green and lavender lilac color Story was everywhere is everywhere.

  • To complement my soft lavender eyes, I chose a powdery pastel lilac colour from Ciate called Poppet.

  • I got Lacey Lilac, which is a beautiful lilac color, obviously.

  • I'm going to start with Euphoria, which is this like lilac colour and I'm going to put that just here.

  • So we'll take the green, we'll take this like lilac colour, and then we'll take this kind of pearly colour, this orangey colour.

  • So just go ahead and blend that into the crease, meeting this beautiful vivid lilac color on the lid.

  • At the rehearsal, Harold and his brother had quarreled about the lilac-colored tuxedos.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Miguel Chico was an usher and was happy not to have to wear one of the lilac-colored tuxedos.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • He had no grape tie, but sported a silly lilac-colored puff in the breast pocket of his blue blazer.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • His smooth, boyish face was covered with freckles, and he was wearing a lilac-colored scrub suit and bright orange sneakers, an overall effect that was so clownlike that Lucas wondered for a moment if he was hallucinating.

    Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

lilac
vslilac-colored
4 2.8

A pale purple color like the flowers of a spring bush

is the plain pale purple like that flower rather than altered tints
lilac-purple
vslilac-colored
3.8

A light purple colour with a soft pink or blue tone

is the simple pale purple without additional pink or blue tint
purplish-lilac
vslilac-colored
5.7

A pale purple color like pink and blue mixed lightly

is the basic pale purple without an added stronger purple tinge
purple-lilac
vslilac-colored
5.2

A light lavender color with a hint of deeper purple

is the standard pale purple rather than a deeper purple-leaning tone
lavender
vslilac-colored
2.4

Having a pale purple color like small garden flowers

is the same pale purple but named for a different flower
lavender-tinged
vslilac-colored
4.6

Slightly purple in color

is the straight pale purple rather than just a faint lavender hint
rose-lilac
vslilac-colored
5.7

A pale purple color with a touch of pink

is the pure pale purple without the added rosy pink hint
bluish-lilac
vslilac-colored
3.9

A pale purple color with a little blue in it

is the unmodified pale purple without a noticeable blue cast
blue-lilac
vslilac-colored
4.6

A light purple color with a touch of blue

is the plain pale purple rather than a shade shifted toward blue

Antonyms

bright
235 1.0

Having a strong, vivid color that is easy to notice

dark-colored
  • US
1 1.3

Having a dark shade, like deep blue or black

How Purple

purple
229 1.0
violet
2 1.6
mauve
10 5.8
lilac-colored
  • US
3.4

Surface Forms

lilac-colored positive
lilac-coloured positive

Morphology

lilac-colored = lilac + colored (transparent) = lilac + color + ed

The adjective is a straightforward compound of 'lilac' and 'colored', and 'colored' is a regular adjective formed from 'color' + '-ed', so the meaning is directly derivable.

Etymology

Lilac-colored comes from the flower lilac and the ending -colored, which means 'having the color of'. The lilac flower has soft, pale purple flowers, so lilac-colored simply means 'pale purple', like the flower.