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REDDISH PURPLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reddish purple mean?
• REDDISH PURPLE (noun)
The noun REDDISH PURPLE has 1 sense:
1. a shade of purple tinged with red
Familiarity information: REDDISH PURPLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A shade of purple tinged with red
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
reddish purple; royal purple
Hypernyms ("reddish purple" is a kind of...):
purple; purpleness (a purple color or pigment)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reddish purple"):
Tyrian purple (a vivid purplish-red color; in ancient Rome and Byzantium, it was the color worn by an emperor or senior magistrate)
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