purple-brown

1. 1.

   of brown tinged with purple

   Synonymspurplish-brown

   Similarchromatic

Questions about purple-brown

What does purple-brown mean?

purple-brown means "of brown tinged with purple".

How many syllables are in purple-brown?

purple-brown has 3 syllables: pur-ple--brown. The stress falls on "pur".

What is another word for purple-brown?

Close synonyms include purplish-brown. 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 purple-brown a common word?

purple-brown 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.