1. Excessively elaborate or showily expressed
   "a writer of empurpled literature"
   - over-embellished, purple

1. Colour purple
   - purple, purpurate

See also: rhetorical

Type of: color [US], color in [US], colorise [Brit], colorize [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], colour in [Brit, Cdn], colourise [Brit], colourize [Brit, Cdn]

• copy editing
• copy editor
• copy out
• copy-and-paste
• copybook
• copycat
• copyedit
• copyhold
• copyholder
• copying
• copyist
• copyread
• copyreader
• copyright
• copyright infringement
• copyrighted
• copywriter
• coq au vin
• coquet
• coquetry
• coquette
• coquettish
• coquettishly
• coquilla nut
• coquille