purplish
- adjective
- /ˈpɜrplɪʃ/
- The sunset cast a purplish hue over the horizon, mixing red and blue as the day ended.
- purplish-red
- dark purplish
- purplish pink
I know lilac is like a little bit purplish but not like completely.
- I know lilac is like a little bit purplish but not like completely.
- And Delray's actually kind of purplish slash blue.
- We envisioned that it would be, you know, a purplish Violet glowing disc basically.
- Blackberries, dark currents, any of these thin skinned berries that are purplish in color is that they contain what are called anthocyanins.
- So you can test the purplish button against the purple button against the pinkish button, because what the hell?
- Not from a bluish state, not from a purplish state, but but from a deep RedState who stood for principle on that particular nominee.
Examples
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She wore a dress that had a purplish tint, combining shades of lavender and deep violet.
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The flowers in the garden bloomed with purplish petals that brightened up the landscape.
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The tip of his nose was turning purplish from the cold.
Fiction book (2001) -
Already the bath of radiation was turning my skin a purplish brown.
Fiction book (2001) -
My toes on my left side were turning purplish pink, but my right side, there was a lot more damage, you could tell.
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The argon gives that pretty purplish color.
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It's kind of like a purplish, very deep blue, almost black, depending on how much ambient light you have.
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That's that purplish shade I mentioned earlier.
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I think his eyes were brown, but it was hard to tell in the purplish glow from the streetlights.
Fiction book (1999) -
You can see it has that sort of purplish reddish coloration there.
Synonyms
Having a color between red and blue like violet
Having a blue-purple color like small garden flowers
A color that is a mix of red and blue
A blue color with a little purple in it
A blue color with a little purple in it
A blue color with a little purple
A blue color with a purple tint
A purple color with a clear red tint
Having a deep purplish-blue color between blue and purple
Showing a purple color or starting to turn purple
Having a slight purple color
Having a slight purple color
A purple color with a little blue mixed in
Purple with a touch of blue
A violet color with a little blue
A blue color with a small red tint like the sky at dusk
A color between red and purple, like ripe grapes
A purple color that has some red in it
A deep purple color mixed with red
A purple color with a little red in it
Having a purple color between blue and red
A pale, light purple color that looks soft
A pale purple color with a little blue in it
A light purple color with a touch of pink
A purple color with a slight pink shade
A purple shade with a pink tint
A light color with a small touch of violet
Having a light violet colour
A color between violet and purple
A pale purple color like pink and blue mixed lightly
Having a purple color, often on the skin
Compounds
How Purple
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word purplish comes from the color purple and the ending -ish, which means 'somewhat like'. So purplish means 'a bit like purple', not fully purple but close to it.