Synonyms of purple

Noun


1. purple, purpleness, chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour

usage: a purple color or pigment

2. purple, nobility, noblesse

usage: of imperial status; "he was born to the purple"

Verb


1. purple, discolor, discolour, colour, color

usage: become purple

2. purple, empurple, purpurate, color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in

usage: color purple

Adjective


1. purple, violet, purplish, chromatic (vs. achromatic)

usage: of a color intermediate between red and blue

2. empurpled, over-embellished, purple, rhetorical (vs. unrhetorical)

usage: excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"

3. imperial, majestic, purple, regal, royal, noble (vs. lowborn)

usage: 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"

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Definition and meaning of purple (Dictionary)