purplish


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pur·plish

 (pûr′plĭsh)
adj.
Somewhat purple.
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pur•plish

(ˈpɜr plɪʃ)

also pur′ply,



adj.
somewhat purple; tinged with purple.
[1555–65]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.purplish - of a color intermediate between red and blue
chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue
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Translations

purplish

[ˈpɜːplɪʃ] ADJpurpurino, algo purpúreo
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purplish

adjleicht violett or lila
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References in classic literature ?
The man's purplish red face, his heavy eyelids, the nervous twitchings, all spoke of his addiction to drink.
They could get no fowls; old, purplish, stringy cocks were all they had for roasting and boiling.
His skin was scarred and wrinkled and mottled, and in colour was a purplish blue surfaced with a grey coating that might have been painted there had it not indubitably grown there and been part and parcel of him.
It was of a dark purplish, yellow color, here and there stuck over with large, blackish looking squares.
And the dark purplish brown of the ploughed earth and of the bare branches is beautiful too.
His eyes bulged, his tongue protruded, his face turned to a ghastly purplish hue--there was a convulsive tremor of the stiffening muscles, and the Manyuema sentry lay quite still.
A tangled mass of women, with drawn, white faces and open mouths, is shrieking like a chorus of lost souls; and the red-faced man, his face now purplish with wrath, and with arms extended overhead as in the act of hurling thunderbolts, is shouting, "Shut up!
If they had surprised her they would have found her lost, apparently, in admiration of the large hotel across the square, for, after writing a few words, her pen rested upon the paper, and her mind pursued its own journey among the sun-blazoned windows and the drifts of purplish smoke which formed her view.
"It was not printed in this room," he said; "this is black ink and the other purplish. It was done by a thick pen, and these are fine.
Out of a deep window she could see a great climbing stretch of land which seemed to have no trees on it, and to look rather like an endless, dull, purplish sea.
It was a bright fire, but it made no difference to the chill-looking purplish tint of Mrs.
He was tired; Jacquotte noticed the purplish flush on his face, but the weather was so very cold that she would not get ready a warm foot-bath for him, as she usually did when she saw that the blood had gone to his head.