magenta
IPA: mʌdʒˈɛntʌ
noun
- A vibrant light purple, purplish-red, reddish-purple, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.
- A town in Northern Italy, site of the Battle of Magenta after which the color magenta was named.
adjective
- having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.
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Examples of "magenta" in Sentences
- The color of the sheets was magenta.
- The location of the earliest chariots is shown in magenta.
- Look for the magenta and green lines alongside the buildings.
- Magenta is the opposite of green, and yellow the opposite of blue.
- Magenta is the complement of green, and yellow the complement of blue.
- The flower is magenta in color, often with yellow markings in the mouth.
- The lip is bright magenta in color and partially wraps around the column.
- It appears to have to do with the meanings of the word magenta, not the color.
- It is Magenta with a black stripe running from the back of the eye to the lip.
- At the edges, the head dissolves into the background of blue and magenta stars.