Synonyms for magenta
məˈdʒɛn təma·gen·ta

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1. magentanoun

   Synonyms:
   fuchsine, fuchsia

2. Magentanoun

   a town in Northern Italy, site of the Battle of Magenta after which the color magenta was named.

   Synonyms:
   fuchsine, fuchsia

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1. magentanoun

   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

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral

2. Magenta, Battle of Magentaadjective

   a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral

3. magentaadjective

   of deep purplish red

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

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1. • Purplish Red

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1. Michael McCormack:

   T-Mobile wanted to win a marketing campaign with a big magenta map that lights up the whole country, with Verizon or ATT, you'll just see little dots around the country. But whether that brings new customers [ to T-Mobile ] remains to be seen.

2. Field Museum senior research scientist:

   There’s more than one way to make magenta with iridescence, the parent species each have their own way of making magenta, which is, I think, why you can have this nonlinear or surprising outcome when you mix together those two recipes for producing a feather color.