| 单词 | purple |
| 释义 | purple (once / 215 pages) nadjv Purple is a shade that's a mixture of red and blue. If you are eating a grape Popsicle, get ready to spend a while with a purple tongue and lips. The Greek root of purple is porphyra, which was the name of the shellfish from which purple dye was made. Long ago, only royalty could wear — and afford the dye for — purple clothing. If the setting sun purples the sky, the light is making the horizon appear to be colored purple, just as a bruise purples your skin. Purple prose is a literary term that refers to overly flowery or exaggerated writing. WORD FAMILYpurple: purpled, purpleness, purpler, purples, purplest, purpling, purplish, purply, purpurate+/purpurate: purpurates USAGE EXAMPLESYes, this is still a nation of purple mountain majesties and fruited plains. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) The Purple Eagles’ final 3 was off the mark. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The bottle’s purple label with floral images was designed to attract female shoppers’ attention in a wine aisle dominated by dull colors. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) 1n a purple color or pigment Syn|Hypo|Hyper purpleness lavender a pale purple color mauvea moderate purple reddish purple, royal purplea shade of purple tinged with red reddish blue, violeta variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum Tyrian purplea vivid purplish-red color indigoa blue-violet color chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour a color that has hue 2n of imperial status he was born to the purple Hyper nobility, noblesse the state of being of noble birth 3adj of a color intermediate between red and blue Syn purplish, violet chromatic being or having or characterized by hue 4adj excessively elaborate or showily expressed many purple passages Syn empurpled, over-embellished rhetorical given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought 5adj belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler purple tyrant Syn imperial, majestic, regal, royal noble of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times 6v become purple Hyper color, colour, discolor, discolour change color, often in an undesired manner 7v color purple Syn|Hyper empurple, purpurate color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize add color to |
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