Overview of noun purple

The noun purple has 2 senses

• purple, purpleness -- (a purple color or pigment)


• purple -- (of imperial status; "he was born to the purple")

Overview of verb purple

The verb purple has 2 senses

• purple -- (become purple)


• purple, empurple, purpurate -- (color purple)

Overview of adj purple

The adj purple has 3 senses

• purple, violet, purplish -- (of a color intermediate between red and blue)


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


• imperial, majestic, purple, regal, royal -- (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")