amaranthine

[ am-uh-ran-thin, -thahyn ]

adjective

1. of or like the amaranth.
2. unfading; everlasting:

   a woman of amaranthine loveliness.

3. of purplish-red color.

amaranthine

/ ˌæməˈrænθaɪn /

adjective

1. of a dark reddish-purple colour
2. of or resembling the amaranth

Word History and Origins

Origin of amaranthine¹

First recorded in 1660–70; amaranth + -ine ¹

Example Sentences

“Like the rest of the restaurants, we got hit pretty bad in the sense that there was not much we could do. For us, the priority is to fill the existing capacity,” said Yiannikakis, the owner of Amaranthine restaurant in Miami Shores.

From Fox News

They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.

From The Guardian

They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue.

From Project Gutenberg

Thoughts of amaranthine bloom will spring up in the fields ploughed to give food to suffering men.

From Project Gutenberg

Be it so — yet would I see the flowers blooming over the grave of those I have loved, and while seated near, feel that the bitterness of death is past, and that their happy disembodied spirits range, free from all sorrows, amid the amaranthine bowers of heaven!

From Project Gutenberg