purple | | |
n. (attribute) | 1. purple, purpleness | a purple color or pigment. |
| ~ chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour | a color that has hue. |
| ~ lavender | a pale purple color. |
| ~ mauve | a moderate purple. |
| ~ reddish purple, royal purple | a shade of purple tinged with red. |
| ~ reddish blue, violet | a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum. |
n. (state) | 2. purple | of imperial status.; "he was born to the purple" |
| ~ noblesse, nobility | the state of being of noble birth. |
v. (change) | 3. purple | become purple. |
| ~ discolour, discolor, color, colour | change color, often in an undesired manner.; "The shirts discolored" |
v. (change) | 4. empurple, purple, purpurate | color purple. |
| ~ color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour | add color to.; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" |
adj. | 5. purple, purplish, violet | of a color intermediate between red and blue. |
| ~ chromatic | being or having or characterized by hue. |
adj. | 6. empurpled, over-embellished, purple | excessively elaborate or showily expressed.; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away" |
| ~ rhetorical | given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought.; "mere rhetorical frippery" |
adj. | 7. imperial, majestic, purple, regal, royal | 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" |
| ~ noble | of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times.; "of noble birth" |
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