Meaning & use
purplish-blue
Having a color that is blue with a noticeable tinge of purple.
See it in a sentence
The bruise slowly turned a deep purplish-blue over the following two days.
The sky just after sunset had shifted to a soft purplish-blue.
A note on using this word
Purplish-blue describes a color that leans more toward blue than true violet does; compare it with 'bluish-purple,' which leans the other way.
Words with a similar meaning
violet-blue
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