Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See fuchsin.
- n. A purplish red, one of the subtractive primary colors.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A rich and somewhat glaring red pigment. Also called aniline red and fuchsin.
- n. The color given by the pigment.
Wiktionary
- n. A light purple, purplish-red, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.
- adj. having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also
fuchsin ,fuchsine ,roseïne , etc. - n. The purplish-red color of magenta.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta
- adj. of deep purplish red
- n. a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I
Etymologies
- Named in 1859 by Edward Chambers Nicholson after the Battle of Magenta, fought earlier that year. (Wiktionary)
- After Magenta, a town of northwest Italy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“-- creating normalized set, copy values from settable create table normalset (id int not null default 0, val char (8), key (id)); insert into normalset SELECT id, 'cyan' FROM settable WHERE s like '% cyan%'; insert into normalset SELECT id, 'yellow' FROM settable WHERE s like '% yellow%'; insert into normalset SELECT id, 'magenta' FROM settable WHERE s like '% magenta%'; insert into normalset SELECT id, 'black' FROM settable WHERE s like '% black%';”
“If that's too severe and you are looking for simplicity with a hit of color, try the square-necked, front-pleated Gali wool dress with silk-blend trim in magenta (£ 1,250).”
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“I wrote my first story at age 3 in magenta crayon on green-bar computer paper!”
“Two dress up in magenta dresses and gold-trimmed aprons with heavy pots strapped to their backs.”
“In the glass, it's a bright ruby red with a thin magenta rim.”
“Rooms fill with light and glow in magenta, green, and endless shades of white with subtle changes in variations as one moves from source to the margins of the enclosing space.”
“On the brilliant screen appeared a modern site, highlighted in magenta, that is updated almost daily.”
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“A low divan, covered with satin of the disagreeable color known as magenta, surrounded the room on all sides.”
“It seems that Musashi's hair was, prior, the same color as Crayola's "magenta" colored pencil, while now the color of Kodak's "magenta" colored pencil.”
“In a nod toward more optimism and daring in consumer spending, hot pink hues such as magenta and fuchsia are fall's breakout color trend.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘magenta’.
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Reds
crimson, blood, scarlet, rott, rojo, brick, fire engine, vermilion, carmine, burgundy, amaranth, alizarin and 115 more...
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Uncommon Colours
azure, myrtle, periwinkle, viridian, jade, emerald, lime, chartreuse, asparagus, celadon, harlequin, olive and 147 more...
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Crayon Colors
This is a continuing list of Crayon Colors past and present. As I find new ones added to the "box", I will add them here as well!
black, blue, brown, apricot, bittersweet, blue green, blue violet, brick red, burnt sienna, carnation pink, cornflower, flesh and 134 more...
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Colour Me Happy
violet, lavender, rose, eggshell, mauve, fuschia, grey, azure, almond, sienna, purple, periwinkle and 71 more...
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The Decemberists for polite everyday ...
opal, dolor, lithe, infanta, vagabond, courtesan, vestry, skein, dram, magenta, camisole, charlemagne and 8 more...
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jonasword's list
My words unusual strange new clever or stupid
puce, ecru, magenta, mauve, taupe, azure, cerulean, celadon, cinnabar, viridian, vermilion, ultramarine and 6 more...
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colors
This list aims to contain words whose primary definition describes the color itself, unlike gold, silver, rust, turquoise, etc. Of course red can mean communist, blue can mean sad, yellow can mean ...
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, purple, pink, grey, gray, white, black and 25 more...
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Colors
cerise, carnelian, florid, claret, watchet, rosaceous, coquelicot, vermilion, celadon, nacreous, lapis, viridescent and 132 more...
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Pink
hot pink, fuchsia, magenta, lavender, cherry blossom, amaranth, cerise, coral, salmon, shocking, pig
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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colors
what r your fave colors?
purple, green, red, blue, violet, magenta, white, yellow, pink, black
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Tip-Top Toponymic
Place names that have entered general speech. Toponyms that interest me in other ways are on Place Names Of Distinction
hamburger, wiener, finlandisation, vernissage, hackney, venetians, bohemian, anti-macassar, berliner, cravat, calico, serendipity and 113 more...
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Colors
Words for colors, including things so associated with a color that they can be used in reference to a color.
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, purple, navy, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse and 218 more...
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Writing
immunity, reaching, affinity, divinity, ingenuity, linguistics, pictures, kaleidoscopes, statistics, hope, monolith, mist and 222 more...
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color me mauve
color words
albescent, ecru, eggshell, mauve, taupe, ochre, ashen, goldenrod, gamboge, cream, saffron, mustard and 109 more...
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for magenta.
qvaak An extra-spectral colour! Sweet. Oct 7, 2007