blue-violet

1. 1.

   of violet tinted with blue

   Synonymsbluish-violet

   Similarchromatic

Questions about blue-violet

What does blue-violet mean?

blue-violet means "of violet tinted with blue".

How many syllables are in blue-violet?

blue-violet has 4 syllables: blu-e--vio-let. The stress falls on "e-".

What is another word for blue-violet?

Close synonyms include bluish-violet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blue-violet a common word?

blue-violet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.