What part of speech is mauve?

Mauve can be categorized as an adjective and a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. mauve is a noun, singular of mauves.
  • 2. mauve is an adjective.

Inflections

Noun

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • mauve 
    more mauve
    most mauve
  • Positive: mauve 
  • Comparative: more mauve
  • Superlative: most mauve

What does mauve mean?

Definitions

Adjective

mauve - of a pale to moderate greyish violet color

Noun

mauve - a moderate purple

Examples of mauve

#   Sentence  
1. noun I looked round me. I was on what seemed to be a little lawn in a garden, surrounded by rhododendron bushes, and I noticed that their mauve and purple blossoms were dropping in a shower under the beating of the hail-stones.
Sentence  
noun
I looked round me. I was on what seemed to be a little lawn in a garden, surrounded by rhododendron bushes, and I noticed that their mauve and purple blossoms were dropping in a shower under the beating of the hail-stones.

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