Synonyms for violet
ˈvaɪ ə lɪtvi·o·let

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1. violetnoun

   any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers

   Synonyms:
   reddish blue

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

2. violet, reddish blueadjective

   a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum

   Synonyms:
   reddish blue

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

3. purple, violet, purplishadjective

   of a color intermediate between red and blue

   Synonyms:
   empurpled, over-embellished, regal, majestic, purple, imperial, royal, purplish

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

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1. violetnoun

   Synonyms:
   mauve

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1. List of paraphrases for "violet":

   purple, violette, violeta, bromocresol, dwarf, clover, eva, lettering, lavender

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1. Jennifer Lopez:

   It was very, very minimally planned in advance and was largely spur of the moment. Violet stayed home because Jennifer Lopez’s extremely loyal to Jennifer Lopez mom.

2. Gene Juarez colorist Astrid Burgess:

   Intense violet involves a lightening process prior to a stain to create vivid results and aren’t always easily removed out of the hair, while at the same time can fade rapidly depending on home care and hair porosity.

3. Allen Ginsberg:

   No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

4. John Meara:

   This gives me the ability to see on this model better than I will in the operating room. for Violet, I actually modified my osteotomies (bone cuts) based on something that I was able to see happening in the model.

5. Kylee Hoelscher:

   Her therapist was holding her, and [her friend] Violet and Eden started sword fighting again and Eden started taking a step toward Violet, they were kind of holding her, so they were supporting some of her weight, but she started taking steps around the room and then into the hallway.