purple
adjective
1. of a color intermediate between red and blue
Similar word(s): chromatic, purplish, violet
2. excessively elaborate or showily expressed
- a writer of empurpled literature
- many purple passages
Similar word(s): rhetorical, empurpled
3. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
- purple tyrant
noun
1. a purple color or pigment
Similar word(s): purpleness
Definition categories: attribute
2. (in ancient Rome) position of imperial status
- he was born to the purple
Definition categories: state, nobility, noblesse
3. (Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes
Definition categories: man–made
Sentences with purple as a noun:
- purple colour:
- to put on the imperial purple
- the banded purple