purplish red

1. 1.

   a red with a tinge of purple

   Synonymspurplish-red

   Broaderred

   Narrowermagentafuschiamaroon

Questions about purplish red

What does purplish red mean?

purplish red means "a red with a tinge of purple".

What is another word for purplish red?

Close synonyms include purplish-red. 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 red a common word?

purplish red 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.