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n. a purple color or pigment

adj. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"

purple, ornate, flowery, over-embellished

adj. 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"

fancy

adj. not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"

embellished, ornamented, ornate

adj. rich in decorative detail

baroque, churrigueresque, churrigueresco

adj. having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells

busy, fussy

adj. overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"

untidy, cluttered, littered, messy, mussy

adj. (disorderly)

crowded

adj. overfilled or compacted or concentrated; "a crowded theater"; "a crowded program"; "crowded trains"; "a young mother's crowded days"

elaborate, intricate

adj. marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"

complex

adj. complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs"

complicated

adj. difficult to analyze or understand; "a complicated problem"; "complicated Middle East politics"

elegant

adj. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid"

flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained

adj. richly and brilliantly colorful

gallant, dashing

adj. lively and spirited; "a dashing hero"

gaudy, flashy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty

adj. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

flamboyant, aureate, showy, florid

adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

rococo

adj. having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror"

bright, brilliant, vivid

adj. having striking color; "bright dress"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage"

shot, iridescent, changeable, chatoyant

adj. varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; "changeable taffeta"; "chatoyant (or shot) silk"; "a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent"

deep, rich

adj. strong; intense; "deep purple"; "a rich red"

flaming

adj. resembling flame in brilliance or color; "maple trees ablaze in autumn"; "flaming autumn leaves"

glowing, fluorescent

adj. brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light; "fluorescent colors"

prismatic

adj. exhibiting spectral colors formed by refraction of light through a prism; "prismatic light"

psychedelic

adj. having the vivid colors and bizarre patterns associated with psychedelic states; "a psychedelic painting"

anapestic, anapaestic

adj. (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one

large, orotund, bombastic, declamatory, turgid

adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

forensic

adj. of, relating to, or used in courts of law or public debate or argument

tall, grandiloquent, magniloquent

adj. lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"

oratorical

adj. characteristic of an orator or oratory; "oratorical prose"; "harangued his men in an oratorical way"- Robert Graves

poetic, poetical

adj. characteristic of or befitting poetry; "poetic diction"

stylistic

adj. of or relating to style (especially in the use of language); "stylistic devices"

colorless, colourless

adj. weak in color; not colorful

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