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Adjective purple has 3 senses
- purple, violet, purplish - of a color midway between red and blue
Antonym: achromatic (indirect, via chromatic)
- embellished, empurpled, over-embellished, 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"
Antonym: unrhetorical (indirect, via rhetorical)
- 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"
Antonym: lowborn (indirect, via noble)
Noun purple has 2 senses
- purple, purpleness, empurpled - a chromatic color between red and blue
--1 is a kind of chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
--1 has particulars:
- purple - of imperial status; "he was born to the purple"
--2 is a kind of nobility, noblesse
Verb purple has 2 senses
- purple - become purple
--1 is one way to discolor, discolour, colour, color
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- purple, empurple, purpurate - color purple
--2 is one way to color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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