purple

adj 1: of a color midway between red and blue [syn: {violet}, {purplish}]

2: excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of

empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech

embellished with classical quotations"; "an

over-embellished story of the fish that got away" [syn: {embellished},

{empurpled}, {over-embellished}]

3: 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" [syn: {imperial}, {majestic}, {regal}, {royal}]

4: made purple especially as with suffused blood; "empurpled

with rage"; "purple with suppressed anger" [syn: {empurpled}]

n 1: a chromatic color between red and blue [syn: {purpleness}, {empurpled}]

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

v 1: become purple

2: color purple [syn: {empurple}, {purpurate}]