violet

Plural: violets

Noun

• A small flowering plant known for its purplish-blue flowers.
• any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers
• a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum
• A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers.
• A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy.
• The color of most violets; the colour evoked by the shortest visible wavelengths between 380 and 435 nm, an additive tertiary colour.
• Clothes and (ecclesiastical) vestments of such a colour.
• The characteristic scent of V. odorata.
• Synonym of onion (“vegetable”).

Adjective Satellite

• of a color intermediate between red and blue

Adj

• Of a violet colour.

Examples

• She scored big by playing VIOLET, bringing a splash of color to the Words With Friends board.

Synonyms

purple, purplish, reddish blue, fuchsia, indigo, magenta, onion, rooster, rose, thistle, ultraviolet, violet

Related Words

adder’s tongue, black, blue, brown, cudbear, eggplant, gentamicin, gray, green, grey, iodine, iodopsin, iolite, ionone, lavender, orange, orchid, pink, plum, purple, rainbow, red, rocket, trout lily, viola, violaceous, violet, white, wild pansy, yellow

Anagrams of violet