purple

Verb

• color purple

• become purple

Noun

• of imperial status
  • he was born to the purple
    

• a purple color or pigment

Adjective

• 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
    

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

• of a color intermediate between red and blue

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  empurple , purpurate , purpleness , imperial , majestic , regal , royal , empurpled , over-embellished , violet , purplish