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Defenition of the word purple

    • Defenition of the word purple

      • The resultant colour of the junction of the flesh-color with blue. Colour of the amethyst.
      • Of a color intermediate between red and blue.
      • excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
      • made purple especially as with suffused blood; "empurpled with rage"; "purple with suppressed anger"
      • belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head"
      • of imperial status; "he was born to the purple"
      • become purple
      • color purple
      • a chromatic color between red and blue
      • of a color midway between red and blue
      • belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag''s head"
      • a purple color or pigment
      • of imperial status
      • of a color intermediate between red and blue
      • belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
      • excessively elaborate or showily expressed

    Synonyms for the word purple

      • embellished
      • empurple
      • empurpled
      • imperial
      • majestic
      • over-embellished
      • purpleness
      • purplish
      • purpurate
      • regal
      • royal
      • violet

    Similar words in the purple

      • chromatic
      • colored
      • colorful
      • coloured
      • in color
      • noble
      • rhetorical

    Hyponyms for the word purple

      • lavender
      • mauve
      • reddish blue
      • reddish purple
      • royal purple
      • violet

    Hypernyms for the word purple

      • chromatic color
      • chromatic colour
      • color
      • color in
      • colorise
      • colorize
      • colour
      • colour in
      • colourise
      • colourize
      • discolor
      • discolour
      • nobility
      • noblesse
      • spectral color
      • spectral colour

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