1. violet - Noun
2. violet - Adjective
3. violet - Adjective Satellite
4. Violet - Proper noun
Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).
The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.
In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color.
Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycaena, or Rusticus, and allied genera.
Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.
Source: Webster's dictionaryForgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Mark Twain
I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat. Djuna Barnes
It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that red blazes, and that green, blue and violet dance upon it with untold charms, voluptuous and caressing. Umberto Boccioni
Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich. Yuri Gagarin
If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, "It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae." Phil Plait
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other So with sanity and insanity. Herman Melville