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Synonyms for purple in English

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purple:
- purple; lilac; lavender; violet; purplish; imperial; royal; regal; majestic; over-embellished; empurpled
- purple; dark puple
- purple; purpleness
- purple; purpurate; empurple

English

Detailed Synonyms for purple in English

purple:

purple adj

purple
purple; lilac; lavender; violet
- purple adj
- lilac adj
- lavender adj
- violet adj
purple
purple
- purple adj
purple

– of a color intermediate between red and blue ¹
purple; violet; purplish
– of a color intermediate between red and blue ¹
- purple adj
- violet adj
- purplish adj
purple

– belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler ¹
imperial; royal; purple; regal; majestic
– belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler ¹
- imperial adj
  - golden age of imperial splendor¹
- royal adj
  - treated with royal acclaim¹
  - the royal carriage of a stag's head¹
- purple adj
  - purple tyrant¹
- regal adj
  - regal attire¹
- majestic adj
purple

– excessively elaborate or showily expressed ¹
purple; over-embellished; empurpled
– excessively elaborate or showily expressed ¹
- purple adj
  - many purple passages¹
- over-embellished adj
  - an over-embellished story of the fish that got away¹
- empurpled adj
  - a writer of empurpled literature¹

purple

purple
purple; dark puple
- purple
- dark puple

purple [the ~] noun

the purple

– a purple color or pigment ¹
the purple; the purpleness
– a purple color or pigment ¹
- purple [the ~] noun
- purpleness [the ~] noun
the purple

– of imperial status ¹
the purple
– of imperial status ¹
- purple [the ~] noun
  - he was born to the purple¹

purple verb

purple

– color purple ¹
purple; purpurate; empurple
– color purple ¹
- purple verb
- purpurate verb
- empurple verb
purple

– become purple ¹
purple
– become purple ¹
- purple verb

Related Words for "purple":

purpler, purplest

Alternate Synonyms for "purple":

violet; purplish; chromatic
embellished; empurpled; over-embellished; rhetorical
imperial; majestic; regal; royal; noble
purpleness; chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour
nobility; noblesse
discolor; discolour; colour; color
empurple; purpurate; colorize; colorise; colourise; colourize; color in; colour in

Related Definitions for "purple":

of a color intermediate between red and blue¹
belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler¹
- purple tyrant¹
excessively elaborate or showily expressed¹
- many purple passages¹
a purple color or pigment¹
of imperial status¹
- he was born to the purple¹
color purple¹
become purple¹

Related Synonyms for purple

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