magenta pink
- adjective
- /məˈdʒɛntə pɪŋk/
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magenta
- She wore a stunning dress in magenta pink that turned heads at the party.
Examples
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The walls of the room were painted in a soft magenta pink, creating a warm atmosphere.
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This time it's like so magenta pink it's more horrorish.
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So most of your face right now is in that magenta pink, and then there's the Gray right below that, which is cool because you have a nice contrast ratio.
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The artist chose a vibrant magenta pink for the flowers in her painting.
Synonyms
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A light red color like the shade of many flowers
A bright pink color with a touch of purple
A pale pink color with a little purple
A light pink color with a slight purple tint
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Morphology
This is a straightforward color composition: 'magenta' describes a vivid purplish-red quality applied to the noun 'pink', so the combined meaning (a vivid purplish-pink shade) is directly derivable from the parts. The modifier+noun pattern for colors is cross-linguistically common and follows normal compositional semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
Magenta pink links magenta (the name of a very bright dye once sold after a place called Magenta) and pink (a light red); imagine a strong pink mixed with purple, like the bright flower 'fuchsia'. That's why magenta pink means 'a vivid purplish-pink'.