Indicates a color close to purple but not exactly; can be mixed or faint.

Color Variation

'Purplish' suggests a hint of purple rather than a strong, pure color.

Not Full Purple

Use 'purplish' to add vivid imagery in creative writing or descriptions.

Descriptive Imagery

 these females here we have in picture the one that I believe is called pretty she has got the the damage to right eye when she opens that you can see it's got a bit of a purplish tinge to it and that's probably blind which makes her it doesn't take away a little bit of her advantage as a predator but as I've said

Safari Live - Day 129 PIPE...

 or two and that's the end of the story but in Chandler's case that was the beginning of the story this is what her arm looked like when she came to my clinic about three months after her sprain you can see that the arm is discolored purplish in color it was categorically cold to the touch

The mystery of chronic...

 I'm going to put the middle nine surfaces here under yellow illumination, by simply putting a filter behind them. Now you can see that changes the light that's coming through there, right? Because now the light is going through a yellowish filter and then a purplish filter.