Synonyms for purple
ˈpɜr pəlpur·ple

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1. purple, purplenessnoun

   a purple color or pigment

   Synonyms:
   purpleness

   Antonyms:
   unrhetorical, achromatic, neutral, lowborn

2. purpleadjective

   of imperial status

   "he was born to the purple"

   Synonyms:
   purpleness

   Antonyms:
   neutral, lowborn, achromatic, unrhetorical

3. purple, violet, purplishadjective

   of a color intermediate between red and blue

   Synonyms:
   empurpled, over-embellished, violet, regal, majestic, imperial, royal, purplish

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, unrhetorical, lowborn, neutral

4. empurpled, over-embellished, purpleadjective

   excessively elaborate or showily expressed

   "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"

   Synonyms:
   empurpled, over-embellished, violet, regal, majestic, imperial, royal, purplish

   Antonyms:
   unrhetorical, neutral, lowborn, achromatic

5. imperial, majestic, purple, regal, royalverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   over-embellished, olympian, empurpled, proud, lofty, violet, regal, imperial, majestic, royal, purplish, gallant

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral, unrhetorical, lowborn

6. purpleverb

   become purple

   Synonyms:
   empurple, purpurate

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic, lowborn, unrhetorical

7. purple, empurple, purpurateverb

   color purple

   Synonyms:
   empurple, purpurate

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, lowborn, unrhetorical, neutral

Matched Categories

1. • Chromatic Color
   • Discolor

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1. List of paraphrases for "purple":

   violet, mauve, violette, crimson, violeta, bromocresol

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How to use purple in a sentence?

1. Eva Longoria:

   Look at this! Is that not the most beautiful combination of tomatoes you’ve ever seen? the sweetness of this bright purple beet puree balances the tomatoes’ acidity.

2. Larry Hogan:

   If the former president interferes with the primaries and tries to help nominate folks that are unelectable in a general election in, say, swing districts and purple states, that's gon na hurt.

3. Barbie Signature Designer Carlyle Nuera:

   She wasn’t afraid of a bold print, which I think is reflective of the bold advocacy she had for the rights of different marginalized groups like Asian Americans, Black Americans, and women, and also in my research, I found that there's a type of iris named after her, a beautiful deep purple iris, which is what inspired the print on her dress.

4. Hilairy Hartnett:

   The theory of the purple planet is really intriguing, and it's intriguing because it's important for us to think about the fact that we might not be looking for life that looks like life on the modern Earth, we might be looking for life that looks like Earth in the Archean (era of early life), or we might be looking for life that looks like Earth life that lives way at the bottom of the ocean. And we have to think about what that's going to look like. If it uses retinal pigments, it'll be purple.

5. Don Crigger:

   A Purple Heart is extra special because a serviceman has shed blood for his country, it needs to be recognized, and someone needs to have that in their possession.