Adjective purple has 3 senses
  1. purple, violet, purplish - of a color midway between red and blue
    Antonym: achromatic (indirect, via chromatic)
  2. 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)
  3. 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
  1. 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
    Derived forms: verb purple2, verb purple1, verb purpurate1
  2. purple - of imperial status; "he was born to the purple"
    --2 is a kind of
    nobility, noblesse
,Verb purple has 2 senses
  1. purple - become purple
    --1 is one way to
    discolor, discolour, colour, color
    Derived form: noun purple1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  2. purple, empurple, purpurate - color purple
    --2 is one way to color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
    Derived form: noun purple1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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