mauve

4 definitions found

mauve - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mauve \Mauve\ (m[=o]v), n. [F., mallow, L. malva. So named from
     the similarity of the color to that of the petals of common
     mallow, Malva sylvestris. See Mallow.]
     A color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Mauve aniline (Chem.), a dyestuff produced artificially by
        the oxidation of commercial aniline, and the first
        discovered of the so-called coal-tar, or aniline, dyes. It
        consists of the sulphate of mauve["i]ne, and is a dark
        brown or bronze amorphous powder, which dissolves to a
        beatiful purple color. Called also aniline purple,
        violine, Perkin's mauve, etc.
        [1913 Webster]

  colorful \colorful\ adj.
     1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
  
     Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot
           ; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing;
           prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled
           ]
  
     Syn: colourful.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
        or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious;
        flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy,  jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty
        ; picturesque]
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
        as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
        monochrome.
  
     Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown
           ; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown
           ; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden;
           azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome
           ; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue
           ; blushful, blush-colored, rosy
           ; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy;
           brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow
           ; caramel, caramel brown; carnation;
           chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike
           ; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green
           ; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac
           ; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
                               ; mousy, mouse-colored;
           ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive;
           orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish;
           purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
                     ; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red;
           rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown
                     ; sorrel, brownish-orange
           ; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured
           ; tan; tangerine;
           tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red
           ; yellow, yellowish;
           yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue)
           ; coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress
           ; hazel; honey, honey-colored
           ; hued(postnominal); magenta;
           maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green;
           sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark,
           light.]
  
     Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
          [WordNet 1.5]

mauve - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mauve
      adj 1: of a pale to moderate greyish violet color
      n 1: a moderate purple

mauve - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "mauve":
     amethystine, lavender, lilac, livid, magenta, mulberry, orchid,
     pansy-purple, plum-colored, plum-purple, purple, purplescent,
     purplish, purply, purpurate, purpure, purpureal, purpurean,
     purpureous, raisin-colored, violaceous, violet