- magenta - deep purplish red
Antonym: achromatic (indirect, via chromatic)
- fuchsia, magenta - a dark purple-red; the dye was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta
--1 is a kind of purplish red
- Magenta, Battle of Magenta - a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I
--2 is a kind of pitched battle