Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Tending to a violet color.
Wiktionary
- adj. Tending towards a violet colour.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Tending to a violet color; violascent.
Etymologies
- Latin viola a violet. See -escent. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The portrait was vile, a dirty grey colour with large violescent patches.”
“The yellow sunflashes, in falling from the house fronts, sharply outlined the violescent shadows.”
“They remind you that before there was fashion, there was texture, pattern, color, and shape … as seen, for example, in the robber crab or the reticulated python or the violescent sea whip or the eagle stones to be found in Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Natural Curiosities.”
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effervescent, albescent, concrescence, fervescent, frondescent, suffrutescent, violescent, viridescent, resipiscence, rufescent, sonorescent, tenebrescence and 131 more...
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scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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Color adjectives
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hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
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