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purple-tinged

purple-tinged

4.2
Having a slight purple color
  • adjective
translation icon : tingido de púrpura
  • In autumn, the leaves turned purple-tinged, creating a stunning contrast against the golden hues.

Examples

  • Her dress was a beautiful shade of lavender, adorned with purple-tinged embroidery.

  • These are true violets, giving rise to typically shaped, purple-tinged white flowers.

    Academic text (1995)
  • The artist painted a sunset with purple-tinged clouds that added depth to the scene.

Synonyms

purplish
vspurple-tinged
6 2.9

A color that is a little red and a little blue

focuses on a slight added tint to another color rather than the general hue
purply
vspurple-tinged
1 3.8

A color that is a mix of red and blue

expresses the same tint but uses a simpler word form
purple-tinted
vspurple-tinged
3.7

Having a slight purple color

is the same meaning but uses a different word form
lavender-tinged
vspurple-tinged
4.6

Slightly purple in color

refers to a general red-blue blended tint not that pale floral shade
violet-tinged
vspurple-tinged
4.9

A light color with a small touch of violet

describes a general red-blue blended tint rather than that deeper bluish shade
violet-tinted
vspurple-tinged
4.0

Having a light violet colour

is broader meaning a general red-blue blended tint not that specific shade

Antonyms

12 2.9

Having very little or no color

How Purple

purple
229 1.0
purplish
6 2.9
purple-tinged
4.2
tinted
16 3.2

Surface Forms

purple-tinged positive

Morphology

purple-tinged = purple + tinged (transparent) = purple + tinge + ed

The compound combines the colour 'purple' with the participial adjective 'tinged' (having a slight tint), yielding a directly derivable meaning.

Etymology

Purple-tinged is made from purple (the color) and tinge, where tinge means 'a small amount of color', like the word tint. So purple-tinged means 'having a little purple mixed in', which is why we use it for a sky, petal, or bruise with a faint purple color.