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Color:
Blazing Purple


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Colors with the same hue:
Navy blue
Dark blue
Raisin
Medium blue
Blue
Ultr
Deep Purple
Intense Purple
Royal purple
Soft Purple
Soft Lavender
Similar colors:
Ultraviolet
Nightshade
Somber Purple
Dusk
Imperial Purple
Sparkling Sapphire
Russian violet
Eminence
Royal purple
English violet
Dark blue-gray
Pomp and Power
Royal blue
Midnight
Delft Blue
Raisin
Faded Purple
Space cadet
Plum
Byzantium
Dark purple
Purpureus
Independence
Smoky
Cobalt blue
Twilight Blue
Deep Indigo
Smalt 
Rhythm
Amethyst
Words evoked by this color:
surreal,  recombination,  photochemical,  spectrophotometric,  nonlinearity,  dynastic,  habsburg,  tsar,  tsarist,  domitian,  rebecca,  assaulted,  dislocation,  dislocated,  disfigured,  blemish,  beaten,  byzantine,  byzantium,  unfamiliar,  constantinople,  knot,  eggplant,  moussaka,  aubergine,  waldorf,  gloam,  gloaming,  crepuscular,  graphite,  draftsman,  hexagonal,  staub,  wrought,  blacksmith,  andiron,  iron,  farrier,  teutonic,  ferro,  ferrous,  ferromagnetic,  forge,  magnetism,  germanic,  countertop,  monumental,  stone,  stones,  sarcophagus
Literary analysis:
The color blazing purple is often used in literature to evoke vivid, almost surreal natural landscapes that burst with life and contrasts. In one example, it intensifies the warmth and brilliance of a heathery moor under the sun, standing alongside crimson to create a dynamic interplay of hues [1]. In another instance, blazing purple works in concert with emerald green to produce a startling visual contrast, suggesting a fantastical scene that challenges ordinary perception [2].
  1. On the other side was a good Scotch mile of heathery moor, blazing purple and crimson in the sunshine.
    — from In Touch with Nature: Tales and Sketches from the Life by Gordon Stables
  2. No one really cares about great cauliflower suns, and startling contrasts of blazing purple and emerald green.
    — from The Galaxy Vol. XXIII—March, 1877.—No. 3 by Various

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