a purple color or pigment

[ Syn: purpleness ]

of imperial status; he was born to the purple'

of a color intermediate between red and blue

[ Syn: violet , purplish ]

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

[ Syn: empurpled , over-embellished ]

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 stags head

[ Syn: imperial , majestic , regal , royal ]

become purple

color purple

[ Syn: empurple , purpurate ]