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purple in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. color purple
    purple  empurple  purpurate 
  2. become purple
    purple 
adjective
  1. excessively elaborate or showily expressed
    "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
    empurpled  over-embellished  purple 
  2. 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"
    imperial  majestic  purple  regal  royal 
  3. of a color intermediate between red and blue
    purple  violet  purplish 
noun
  1. a purple color or pigment
    purple  purpleness 
  2. of imperial status
    "he was born to the purple"
    purple 
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