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Color:
Ultraviolet


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Colors with the same hue:
Navy blue
Dark blue
Ultramarine
Zaffre
Medium blue
Blue
Somber Purple
Soft Purple
Whisper
Magnolia
Similar colors:
Blazing Purple
Dusk
Somber Purple
Nightshade
Royal purple
Sparkling Sapphire
Dark blue-gray
Imperial Purple
Eminence
Pomp and Power
Russian violet
English violet
Faded Purple
Royal blue
Delft Blue
Midnight
Plum
Amethyst
Cobalt blue
Purpureus
Denim
Space cadet
Raisin
Sapphire
Rhythm
Twilight Blue
Independence
Smalt 
Slate blue
Byzantium
Words evoked by this color:
surreal,  recombination,  photochemical,  spectrophotometric,  nonlinearity,  rebecca,  crepuscular,  gloam,  gloaming,  rarity,  mozart,  mythic,  ist,  amix,  geode,  amy,  amite,  amelia,  amended,  rare,  amery,  rarer,  knot,  pompadour,  reverend,  thespian,  dowager,  hapsburg,  theological,  matriarch,  empress,  queene,  majesty,  aegean,  athenian,  dislocated,  disfigured,  dislocation,  assaulted,  beaten,  blemish,  dynastic,  habsburg,  tsar,  tsarist,  domitian,  scupper,  welch,  pomace,  jell
Literary analysis:
In literature, ultraviolet is not solely a technical term for a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum but also an evocative color that defies conventional perception. Writers have used ultraviolet imagery to suggest a mysterious, almost otherworldly hue that exists at the edge of human vision. For example, one text contrasts the “violet or ultraviolet end” of the spectrum with more familiar colors like red to evoke subtle emotional and symbolic divergence [1]. In another instance, the image of an “ultraviolet beam piercing the starlit darkness” transforms a scientific phenomenon into a poetic metaphor, lending its eerie radiance a quality both tangible and ineffable [2]. Such usages illustrate how ultraviolet, as a color, opens up imaginative spaces where light and shadow intermingle in unconventional ways.
  1. The difference is that "Pelléas et Mélisande" is the violet or ultraviolet end of the spectrum of which "Salome" is the red.
    — from Contemporary Composers by Daniel Gregory Mason
  2. It seemed as inactive as a beam of ultraviolet piercing the starlit darkness.
    — from The Alien by Raymond F. Jones


Colors associated with the word:
Violet 
Purple 
Lavender 
Lilac
Amethyst 
Indigo 
Plum 
Mauve
Periwinkle 
Orchid 
Magenta 
Fuchsia 
Grape
Eggplant
Heliotrope
Mulberry 
Wine
Thistle 
Words with similar colors:
popish,  iris,  grape,  mora,  rhodopsin,  repent,  epilepsy,  voila,  urchin,  lupus,  alzheimers,  episcopal,  pancreatic,  cheshire,  alzheimer,  bishopric,  epilepsia,  episcopate,  poke,  seizure
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