Having the colour of violets; of a blue or bluish-purple colour.

Of a colour intermediate between blue and violet.

Having the blue or bluish-purple colour of a violet.

Modifying colour words to form nouns and adjectives, as bluish-brown, bluish-green, bluish-grey, bluish-purple, etc.

Violet-coloured; dyed of a violet colour. (See also quot. 1876.)

Of a colour: resembling amethyst. Of an object: amethyst-coloured; violet-purple. Chiefly literary in later use.

Of the colour of an amethyst; violet-purple.

Of or belonging to violets; more or less violet in colour.

Tending to a violet colour; tinged with violet.

Somewhat violet in colour.

of a colour resembling that of a pansy; cf. sense A. 2.