[ UK /pˈɜːpə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈpɝpəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
    golden age of imperial splendor
    the royal carriage of a stag's head
    regal attire
    treated with royal acclaim
    purple tyrant
  2. excessively elaborate or showily expressed
    an over-embellished story of the fish that got away
    a writer of empurpled literature
    many purple passages
  3. of a color intermediate between red and blue
VERB
  1. become purple
  2. color purple
NOUN
  1. (Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes
  2. (in ancient Rome) position of imperial status
    he was born to the purple
  3. a purple color or pigment
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How To Use purple In A Sentence

  • Choose a white form if you want to add a bit more light to proceedings but, in my humble opinion, speckled purple is the best. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wet meadows between rock outcrops include grasses, sedges, mosses, pitcher plant Saracenia purpurea, sundew Drosera sp. and purple fringed orchid Habenaria psycodes. Gros Morne National Park, Canada
  • The forest all along the mountain curve was spotted with dots of red, yellow, purple and gold, trees just beginning to turn with the season.
  • The light was fading and the sky had rings of black, purple and navy making their way up to the small point of light in the center part of the sky.
  • These include sweet cicely, beebalm, yarrow, purple coneflowers and others.
  • This person dressed always in blues and purples, softened by silvers.
  • She wears a thick flowery hairband, several clashing necklaces and a quite revolting hairy purple cardigan with batwing sleeves.
  • As darkness drew near I joyfully and thankfully watched the pinks, purples, blues and golden colors of the sky melt together into a picture-perfect sunset.
  • Consider a combination of red, orange yellow and orange for a striking fall layout, or a combination of icy blues and purples for a frosty winter page.
  • Morrissey and the Duranies are back in the charts; the 20th anniversary edition of Purple Rain was released last week; and Band Aid are already being tipped as a dead cert for the Christmas number one spot.
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