purplish blue

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   a shade of blue tinged with purple

   Synonymsroyal blue

   Broaderblue

Questions about purplish blue

What does purplish blue mean?

purplish blue means "a shade of blue tinged with purple".

What is another word for purplish blue?

Close synonyms include royal blue. 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 purplish blue a common word?

purplish blue 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.