PURPLISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purplish mean? 

• PURPLISH (adjective)
  The adjective PURPLISH has 1 sense:

1. of a color intermediate between red and blue

  Familiarity information: PURPLISH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURPLISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a color intermediate between red and blue

Synonyms:

purple; purplish; violet

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

 Context examples 

Hematoxylin is a dark purplish dye that stains the chromatin (nuclear material) within the nucleus.

(Hematoxylin and Eosin Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

The affected area of the skin is flat and reddish-purplish in color.

(Nevus Flammeus, NCI Thesaurus)

The skin lesions usually take the form of a purplish rash (or less often an exfoliative dermatitis) involving the nose, cheeks, forehead, upper trunk, and arms.

(Dermatomyositis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

On this there rested a large, purplish grape.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In this purplish light Wolf Larsen’s face glowed and glowed, and to my excited fancy he appeared encircled by a halo.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A bluish or purplish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes resulting from a reduced amount of oxygenated hemoglobin in the blood.

(Cyanosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Under the whiskers, and all unseen, I knew that the skin was taking on a purplish hue.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was two in the afternoon, and a ghostly twilight, shot through by wandering purplish lights, had descended upon us.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

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!

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)