n. a purple color or pigment

v. become purple

v. color purple

adj. of a color intermediate between red and blue

adj. 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"

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"

adj. having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks"

adj. impressive in appearance; "a baronial mansion"; "an imposing residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns"

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

adj. rich in decorative detail

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

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

adj. (disorderly)

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

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

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"

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

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"

adj. richly and brilliantly colorful

adj. lively and spirited; "a dashing hero"

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

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

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

adj. having or given a shade of color; esp a pale shade; often used in combination: "amber-tinted"

adj. having come into contact

adj. of a medium to dark brownish yellow color

adj. of a moderate purple color

adj. (of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown; "auburn hair"

adj. having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"

adj. of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado

adj. of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky; "October's bright blue weather"

adj. (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color

adj. of a light greyish-brown color

adj. having two colors; "a bicolor flower"; "a bicolored postage stamp"

adj. of bluish-black or grey-blue

adj. of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke"

adj. of blush color; "blushful mists"

adj. of a dark to moderate greyish green color

adj. of the color of bronze

adj. of a color similar to that of wood or earth

adj. of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather

adj. having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow

adj. having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow-brown

adj. pink or pinkish

adj. of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur

adj. (of hair) of a golden brown to reddish brown color; "a chestnut horse"; "chestnut hair"

adj. of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color

adj. of the color of cream; "creamy translucent pebbles"

adj. of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green

adj. of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun and dreary prairie"

adj. earth colored; of something having a color of soil or earth; "a range of earthlike colors"

adj. of something having a dusky brownish grey color

adj. of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass; "a green tree"; "green fields"; "green paint"

adj. of a light brown or yellowish brown color

adj. having the color of honey

adj. used in combination; having a given hue: "rosy-hued"

adj. of a yellowish brown color

adj. of a pale purple color

adj. of deep purplish red

adj. of dark brownish to purplish red

adj. of a pale to moderate greyish violet color

adj. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies"

adj. of a moderate somewhat dull yellow-green color

adj. of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse; "a mousy brownish-grey color"; "mousy hair"; "mouse-colored hair"

adj. of a moderate orange-yellow color

adj. of a brown color with a greenish tinge

adj. of a light brownish green color

adj. of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive

adj. of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange

adj. of bright greenish blue

adj. of a moderate slightly yellowish-green color

adj. of a light shade of red

adj. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

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"

adj. of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn"

adj. of a deep slightly bluish red color

adj. of brown with a reddish tinge

adj. having the brown color of rust

adj. of the grey-green color of sage leaves

adj. of the color of the sea; bluish green

adj. snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown

adj. of a light brownish color

adj. of any of various dull tannish or grey colors

adj. having the color of dry straw

adj. of a light yellowish-brown color

adj. of a strong reddish orange color

adj. of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather

adj. of a brilliant pure blue to purplish blue color

adj. of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments

adj. of a vivid red to reddish-orange color

adj. of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk

adj. of a color midway between yellow and green

adj. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes"

adj. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes"

adj. of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage"

adj. having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king; "symbolizing kingly power"; "the murder of his kingly guest"

adj. having the characteristics of or befitting or worthy of a monarch; "monarchical gestures"; "monarchal pomp"

adj. having the rank of or befitting a prince; "a princely bearing"; "princely manner"

adj. having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen; "queenly propriety"; "clad in her queenly raiment"; "Rosetti's queenly portraits of women"

adj. being of the rank of a monarch; "of royal ancestry"; "princes of the blood royal"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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