violet
noun · adjective
Simple meaning
A blue-purple color.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈvaɪəlɪt
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
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Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
A blue-purple color.
The color of most violets; the colour evoked by the shortest visible wavelengths between 380 and 435 nm, an additive tertiary colour.
perfumes
The characteristic scent of V. odorata.
figurative
A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy.
A number of places in the United States
A community in Loyalist, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.
adjective
Of a violet colour.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- C1 · Advanced (estimated)
- Frequency
- Moderately Common
- Typical Use
- Neutral / general English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: a blue-purple color.
Used this way, violet is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use violet
- “The delicate violet flower bloomed beautifully in the garden.”
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Compound terms
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A family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus.
Herb or small shrublet having solitary violet to rose-red flowers.
Slender delicate plant with wide roundish deeply lobed leaves and deep pink to violet funnel-shaped flowers.
Perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers.
Common violet of the eastern United States with large pale blue or purple flowers resembling pansies.
Any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers.
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Synonyms
Sense: blue-purple color
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