» purple

Words people most associate with “purple”:

  1. rain,
  2. haze,
  3. red,
  4. green,
  5. blue

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Noun (2 meanings)

1. a purple color or pigment.

purple, purpleness

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2. of imperial status.

purple

Example:
  • “he was born to the purple”
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Verb (2 meanings)

1. become purple.

to purple

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2. color purple.

to purple, empurple, purpurate

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Adjective (3 meanings)

1. of a color intermediate between red and blue.

purple, violet, purplish

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purple is similar to:
  • chromatic (adjective) - being or having or characterized by hue

2. excessively elaborate or showily expressed.

empurpled, over-embellished, purple

Examples:
  • “a writer of empurpled literature”,
  • “many purple passages”,
  • “an over-embellished story of the fish that got away”
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  • rhetorical (adjective) - given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought

3. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.

imperial, majestic, purple, regal, royal

Examples:
  • “golden age of imperial splendor”,
  • “purple tyrant”,
  • “regal attire”,
  • “treated with royal acclaim”,
  • “the royal carriage of a stag's head”
Derivationally related form:
  • emperor (noun) - the male ruler of an empire
  • purple (noun) - of imperial status
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  • noble (adjective) - of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times