noun
1. a purple color or pigment
Synonym: purpleness
2. of imperial status
e.g. he was born to the purple
verb
1. color purple
Synonym: empurplepurpurate
2. become purple
adj
1. of a color intermediate between red and blue
Synonym: violetpurplish
2. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
e.g. golden age of imperial splendor
purple tyrant
regal attire
treated with royal acclaim
the royal carriage of a stag's head
Synonym: imperialmajesticregalroyal
3. excessively elaborate or showily expressed
e.g. a writer of empurpled literature
many purple passages
an over-embellished story of the fish that got away
Synonym: empurpledover-embellished