purple
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
literature
media
motor-racing
politics
publishing
racing
sports
Etymology: From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure.
The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings.
Inflected forms:
form: purpler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more purple
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: purplest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most purple
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: purples
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: purpling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: purpled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: purpled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of a purple hue.
pos: adj
examples: So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
gloss: Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: purple state
purple city
In the end, Nevada remained the quintessential purple state. On the maps that television used to illustrate political trends, Republican states were red and Democratic blue. Nevada blended the colors. It had a bright blue core in the heart of Las Vegas, surrounded by a purple suburban belt. Most of the rest of the state was bright red, especially in the rural counties.
As Mr. Friedlander conceived it, Reason was neither strictly right-wing libertarian nor strictly left — in modern parlance, neither red nor blue but a purple amalgam of the two.
Political colorists can be promiscuous in calling states purple, but my state is true to that hue. I speak of North Carolina, and I have receipts: While our junior senator, Ted Budd, is a Republican who won election to a first term in 2022 by about three percentage points, our governor, Roy Cooper, is a Democrat who won election to a second term in 2020 by more than four.
gloss: Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
pos: adj
tags: Belgium
Netherlands
gloss: Imperial; regal.
pos: adj
examples: Grovel on the earth: aye, hide / In the dust thy purple pride!
gloss: Blood-red; bloody.
pos: adj
examples: O may ſuch purple teares be alway ſhed
Wars, horrid Wars I view; a field of Blood; / And Tyber rolling with a Purple Flood.
gloss: Of language, extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: flowery, overwrought
A writer who has made a career of churning out thick novels may be expected to write too quickly to notice that patches of her writing are unbearably purple.
gloss: Of a sector, lap, etc., completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
pos: adj
gloss: To turn purple in colour.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [T]he Capri cliffs, the tops of which were still pink against the purpling sky.
The gang leader purpled and raised his gun.
gloss: To dye purple.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Year after year unto her feet, / She lying on her couch alone, / Across the purpled coverlet, / The maiden's jet-black hair has grown, […]
gloss: To clothe in purple.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: nonpurple
Related words: porphyrogenite
porphyrogeniture
purpure
rhodopsin
secondary color
Derived words: American purple gallinule
aniline purple
bee purple
bepurple
blurple
born in the purple
born to the purple
bromcresol purple
bromocresol purple
Chinese purple
common purple-glossed snake
early-purple orchid
empurple
flying purple people eater
flying purple people-eater
French purple
Han purple
impurple
line of purples
liseran purple
Okinawan purple potato
once in a purple moon
palatinate purple
Perkin's purple
purple airway
purple-backed fairywren
purple-backed sunbeam
purple-backed thornbill
purple bacteria
purple-banded sunbird
purple bar
purple-bearded bee-eater
Celebes bee-eater
purple beech
purple-bellied lory
purple bird
purple box
purple-breasted cotinga
purple-breasted sunbird
purple-capped fruit dove
purple cochoa
purple copper ore
purple coral
purple-crested turaco
purple-crowned fairy
purple-crowned fairywren
purple-crowned fairy-wren
purple death
purple dye murex
purple emperor
purple everlasting
purple finch
purple-fish
purple gallinule
purple-gaped honeyeater
purple gas
purple glory-of-the-sun
purple-glossed snake
purple glossy starling
purple glove syndrome
purple gold
purple grackle
purple guava
purple hairstreak
purple hat therapy
Purple Hawke
purple-headed starling
purple-headed yogurt slinger
Purple Heart
purple heart
purpleheart
purple helmet
purple heron
purple honeycreeper
purple indigobird
purple ivory
purple Jesus
purple joe-pye weed
purple judge
purpleleaf
purple lettuce
purple loosestrife
purplely
Purpleman
purple marshlocks
purple martin
purple meadowrue
purple milkweed
purple monkey dishwasher
purple-naped lory
purple-naped sunbird
purple nasty
purple needletail
purpleness
purple noise
purple notice
purple nurple
purple ochre
purple of Cassius
purple of mollusca
purple passage
purple passion
purple patch
Purple Pedosaur
purple pill
purple pitcher plant
purple plague
purple prose
purple quartz
purple rice
purple roller
purple-rumped sunbird
purple sandpiper
purplescent
purple shell
purple shirt of sex
purple sock
purplespotted
purple spurge
purple squirrel
purple starling
purple state
purple storm snail
purple sulfur bacterium
purple sunbird
purple swamphen
purple-tailed imperial pigeon
purple team
purple teamer
purple three-awn grass
purple-throated carib
purple-throated cotinga
purple-throated cuckooshrike
purple-throated fruitcrow
purple-throated mountaingem
purple-throated sunangel
purple-throated sunbird
purple-throated woodstar
purple toe syndrome
purple tooth
purple triangle
purpletuft
purple urine bag syndrome
purple velvet plant
purple vetch
purplewash
purplewashing
purple-winged ground dove
purple-winged roller
purple wiregrass
purplewood
purplewort
purple yam
purple zone
purplish
purply
purpureal
raise to the purple
Rebecca purple
red-spotted purple
regal purple
retinal purple
rise to the purple
royal purple
Schoenfeld's purple
slate purple
take the purple
Tyrian purple
unpurple
velvet-purple coronet
vision purple
visual purple
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: llullaq
lang: Albanian
word: vjollcë
lang: Amharic
word: ሃምራዊ
roman: hamrawi
lang: Arabic
word: أُرْجُوَانِيّ
roman: ʔurjuwāniyy
lang: Arabic
word: بَنَفْسَجِيّ
roman: banafsajiyy
lang: Armenian
word: ծիրանի
roman: cirani
lang: Asturian
word: moráu
lang: Asturian
word: púrpura
lang: Belarusian
word: фіяле́тавы
roman: fijaljétavy
lang: Bulgarian
word: виоле́тов
roman: violétov
lang: Bulgarian
word: пу́рпурен
roman: púrpuren
lang: Bulgarian
word: мо́рав
roman: mórav
lang: Catalan
word: porpra
lang: Catalan
word: purpuri
lang: Chichewa
word: chofiilira
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 紫色
roman: zǐsè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 紫
roman: zǐ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 紺 /绀
roman: gàn
lang: Cornish
word: glasrudh
lang: Cornish
word: purpur
lang: Czech
word: nachový
lang: Czech
word: purpurový
lang: Danish
word: lilla
lang: Dutch
word: paars
lang: Dutch
word: purperen
lang: Esperanto
word: purpura
lang: Estonian
word: purpurne
lang: Finnish
word: sinipunainen
lang: Finnish
word: violetti
lang: French
word: violet
lang: French
word: pourpre
lang: Saterland Frisian
word: sangen
lang: Galician
word: morado
lang: Georgian
word: იისფერი
roman: iisperi
lang: Georgian
word: იასამნისფერი
roman: iasamnisperi
lang: Georgian
word: მოწითალო-მოლურჯო
roman: moc̣italo-molurǯo
lang: Georgian
word: მოვარდისფრო-მოიისფრო
roman: movardispro-moiispro
lang: German
word: purpurn
lang: German
word: purpurrot
lang: Greek
word: πορφυρός
roman: porfyrós
lang: Greek
word: βιολετής
roman: violetís
lang: Greek
word: μοβ
roman: mov
lang: Haitian Creole
word: mov
lang: Haitian Creole
word: vyolèt
lang: Hebrew
word: סָגֹל
roman: sagól
lang: Hindi
word: बैंगनी
roman: baiṅgnī
lang: Hindi
word: बैगनी
roman: baignī
lang: Hopi
word: tsorongpu
lang: Hungarian
word: bíbor
lang: Hungarian
word: bíborszín
lang: Icelandic
word: fjólublár
lang: Icelandic
word: purpuralitur
lang: Ido
word: purpurea
lang: Interlingua
word: purpuree
lang: Irish
word: corcra
lang: Irish
word: purpair
lang: Japanese
word: 紫色
roman: murasaki-iro
lang: Japanese
word: 紫の
roman: murasaki no
lang: Japanese
word: パープル
roman: pāpuru
lang: Khmer
word: ពណ៌ស្វាយ
roman: poa svaa yɔɔ
lang: Korean
word: 보라색의
roman: borasaegui
lang: Latin
word: purpureus
lang: Latin
word: ostrīnus
lang: Latin
word: blatteus
lang: Latvian
word: purpurs
lang: Latvian
word: lillā
lang: Latvian
word: violets
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: vyolé
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: vyolèt
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: lila
lang: Luxembourgish
word: mof
lang: Malay
word: ungu
lang: Manchu
word: ᡧᡠᡧᡠ
roman: šušu
lang: Māori
word: waiporoporo
lang: Māori
word: poroporo
lang: Maranao
word: kasomba
lang: Norman
word: pourpre
lang: Old English
word: basu
lang: Old English
word: blǣhǣwen
lang: Old English
word: basureadan
lang: Old English
word: weolucbasu
lang: Old Tupi
word: umbyk
lang: Persian
word: ارغوانی
roman: arġavâni
lang: Plautdietsch
word: purpur
lang: Polish
word: purpurowy
lang: Polish
word: fioletowy
lang: Portuguese
word: púrpura
lang: Portuguese
word: roxo
lang: Punjabi
word: ਜਾਮਨੀ
roman: jāmnī
lang: Quechua
word: kulli
lang: Quechua
word: sañi
lang: Romansh
word: violet
lang: Russian
word: фиоле́товый
roman: fiolétovyj
lang: Russian
word: пу́рпурный
roman: púrpurnyj
lang: Russian
word: пурпу́рный
roman: purpúrnyj
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: purpar
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: purpaidh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: còrcair
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: пурпуран
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: љубичаст
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: purpuran
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ljubičast
lang: Slovak
word: purpurový
lang: Somali
word: dugul
lang: Spanish
word: morado
lang: Spanish
word: púrpura
lang: Spanish
word: purpúreo
lang: Spanish
word: purpurino
lang: Spanish
word: coccíneo
lang: Spanish
word: múrice
lang: Swahili
word: -a zambarau
lang: Swedish
word: lila
lang: Swedish
word: violett
lang: Swedish
word: purpurfärgad
lang: Tajik
word: қирмизӣ
roman: qirmizi
lang: Tatar
word: шәмәхә
roman: şämäxä
lang: Tày
word: cắm
lang: Telugu
word: ఊదా
roman: ūdā
lang: Thai
word: ม่วง
roman: mûuang
lang: Turkish
word: mor
lang: Turkish
word: erguvani
lang: Ukrainian
word: фіоле́товий
roman: fiolétovyj
lang: Unami
word: chàkinkwèmikte
lang: Unami
word: chàkinkwèminakwsi
lang: Urdu
word: جامنی
roman: jāmanī
lang: Vietnamese
word: đỏ tía
lang: Vietnamese
word: màu tím
lang: Volapük
word: purpurik
lang: Welsh
word: porffor
lang: Welsh
word: piws
lang: Welsh
word: glasgoch