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/ˈvaɪ.ə.lət/ · noun
A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers..
Refreshed by their cooling bath of evening dew, the violets and other nocturnal flowers emitted a pleasant fragrance over the fields, but from the bogs and the rivulets came up now and then damp, penetrating gusts, that sent an icy chill through me.
Albertus Magnus, the thirteenth century philosopher and occultist, states that coriander, valerian, and violet are love producing herbs.
‘Tom,’ he said, ‘you are looking at a crushed violet, a spent egg, a squeezed tube.’
Use violet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Violet means A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers..
Common synonyms include fuchsia, indigo, magenta, purple.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Refreshed by their cooling bath of evening dew, the violets and other nocturnal flowers emitted a pleasant fragrance over the fields, but from the bogs and the rivulets came up now and then damp, penetrating gusts, that sent an icy chill through me.
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