Violet vs. Pink — What's the Difference?

Any of various low-growing herbs of the genus Viola, having short-spurred, irregular flowers that are characteristically purplish-blue but sometimes yellow or white.

Pink is a color that is a pale tint of red and is named after a flower of the same name. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century.

Any of several similar plants, such as an African violet.

Of a colour intermediate between red and white, as of coral or salmon

The hue at the short-wavelength end of the visible spectrum, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 380 to 420 nanometers; any of a group of colors, reddish-blue in hue, that may vary in lightness and saturation.

Having or showing left-wing tendencies

A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers.

Of or associated with homosexuals

(figurative) A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy.

Pink colour, pigment, or material

A bluish-purple colour resembling that of most V. odorata.

The best condition or degree

Clothes and (ecclesiastical) vestments of such a colour.

A herbaceous Eurasian plant with sweet-smelling pink or white flowers and slender, typically grey-green leaves.

(perfumes) The characteristic scent of V. odorata.

A small square-rigged sailing ship, typically with a narrow, overhanging stern.

Syn of onion.

A yellowish lake pigment made by combining vegetable colouring matter with a white base.

Having a bluish-purple colour.

Become pink

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).

Shear (a sheep) so closely that the colour of the skin is visible

The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.

Cut a scalloped or zigzag edge on

In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color.

Decorate

Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycæna, or Rusticus, and allied genera.

(of a vehicle engine) make a series of rattling sounds as a result of over-rapid combustion of the fuel–air mixture in the cylinders

Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.

Any of a group of colors reddish in hue, of medium to high lightness, and of low to moderate saturation.

Any of numerous low-growing small-flowered violas

Any of various plants of the genus Dianthus, such as sweet William, often cultivated for their showy, fragrant, usually pink, red, or white flowers. Also called dianthus.

A variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum

Any of several other plants in the pink family, such as the wild pink.

Of a color midway between red and blue

A flower of any of these plants.

The highest or best degree

Light-colored trousers formerly worn as part of the winter semidress uniform by US Army officers.

The scarlet coat worn by fox hunters.

(Slang)A pinko.

A small sailing vessel with a sharply narrowed stern and an overhanging transom.

Of the color pink.

(Slang)Having moderately leftist political opinions.

To stab lightly with a pointed weapon; prick.

To decorate with a perforated pattern.

To cut with pinking shears.

(regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.

(regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.

A narrow boat.

(obsolete) A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.

(obsolete) A small hole or puncture made by a sharp, slender instrument such as a rapier, poniard or dagger, or (by extension) a bullet; a stab.

(obsolete) A small hole or eyelet punched in a garment for decoration, as with a pinking iron; a scallop.

Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.

(dated) A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.

(color) The colour of this flower, between red and white; pale red.

Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.

(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.

(slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.

(slang) The vagina or vulva.

(historical) Any of various lake#Etymology 4 pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green, or brown shades made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.

To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.

To prick with a sword.

To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.

(intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.

(transitive) To turn (something) pink.

(transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.

Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).

Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.

(obsolete) To wink; to blink.

Having a colour between red and white; pale red.

Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.

Having conjunctivitis.

(obsolete) By comparison to red (communist), describing someone who sympathizes with the ideals of communism without actually being a Russian-style communist: a pinko.

(informal) Relating to women or girls.

(informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.

(obsolete) Half-shut; winking.

A vessel with a very narrow stern; - called also pinky.

A stab.

A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.

A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; - so called from the common color of the flower.

Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.

The European minnow; - so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.

To wink; to blink.

To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.

To stab; to pierce as with a sword.

To choose; to cull; to pick out.

Half-shut; winking.

Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.

A light shade of red

Any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers

Make light, repeated taps on a surface;

Sound like a car engine that is firing too early;

Cut in a zig-zag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing

Of a light shade of red