- 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)
- 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:mauve; reddish purple, royal purple; violet, reddish blue