royal blue

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   a shade of blue tinged with purple

   Synonymspurplish blue

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Questions about royal blue

What does royal blue mean?

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

What is another word for royal blue?

Close synonyms include purplish 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 royal blue a common word?

royal 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.