Noun | 1. | ![]() Synonyms: empurpled, purpleness |
2. | purple - of imperial status; "he was born to the purple" | |
Verb | 1. | purple - become purple |
2. | purple - color purple | |
Adj. | 1. | purple - of a color midway between red and blue |
2. | purple - 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" | |
3. | purple - 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" |