Purple

noun
'pɜrpəl

Adjective

  • excessively elaborate or showily expressed

    a writer of empurpled literature

    many purple passages

    Similar:EmpurpledOver-embellished
  • belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler

    purple tyrant

  • of a color intermediate between red and blue

    Similar:PurplishViolet

Noun

  • (in ancient Rome) position of imperial status

    he was born to the purple

    Type of:NobilityNoblesse
  • a purple color or pigment

    Similar:Purpleness
  • (Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes

Verb

  • color purple

    Similar:EmpurplePurpurate
    Type of:ColoriseColorColorize
  • become purple

    Type of:ColorDiscolourDiscolor

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