1. Of a colour intermediate between red and blue
   - violet, purplish 
2. Excessively elaborate or showily expressed
   "many purple passages"
   - empurpled, over-embellished 
3. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
   "purple tyrant"
   - imperial, majestic, regal, royal

1. A purple colour or pigment
   - purpleness 
2. Of imperial status
   "he was born to the purple"

1. Become purple 
2. Colour purple
   - empurple, purpurate

Derived forms: purples, purpled, purpling

See also: chromatic, noble, rhetorical

Type of: chromatic color [US], chromatic colour [Brit, Cdn], color [US], color in [US], colorise [Brit], colorize [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], colour in [Brit, Cdn], colourise [Brit], colourize [Brit, Cdn], discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], nobility, noblesse, spectral color [US], spectral colour [Brit, Cdn]

Encyclopedia: Purple

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