 purple |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] (color) of a color midway between red and blue | |
| Synonyms: | purplish violet | |
| Related terms: | chromatic | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (color) a chromatic color between red and blue | |
| Synonyms: | empurpled purpleness | |
| Related terms: | chromatic_color violet reddish_purple mauve | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] excessively elaborate or showily expressed | |
| Synonyms: | empurpled over-embellished embellished | |
| Examples: | "a writer of empurpled literature" "many purple passages" "speech embellished with classical quotations" "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away" |
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| Related terms: | rhetorical | |
| 4. | [ verb ] (color) become purple | |
| Related terms: | discolor | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] made purple especially as with suffused blood | |
| Synonyms: | empurpled | |
| Examples: | "empurpled with rage" "purple with suppressed anger" |
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| Related terms: | colored | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | |
| Synonyms: | regal majestic royal imperial | |
| Examples: | "golden age of imperial splendor" "purple tyrant" "regal attire" "treated with royal acclaim" "the royal carriage of a stag's head" |
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| Related terms: | noble | |
| 7. | [ verb ] (fine art,color) color purple | |
| Synonyms: | purpurate empurple | |
| Related terms: | color color | |
| 8. | [ noun ] of imperial status | |
| Examples: | "he was born to the purple" |
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| Related terms: | nobility | |
| Similar spelling: |
purplish perplex |
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