purple

(noun) a purple color or pigment. Synonyms: purpleness.

(noun) of imperial status. Example: "He was born to the purple."

(verb) become purple.

(verb) color purple. Synonyms: empurple, purpurate.

(adj) of a color intermediate between red and blue. Synonyms: violet, purplish.

(adj) excessively elaborate or showily expressed. Synonyms: empurpled, over-embellished. Examples: "A writer of empurpled literature." "Many purple passages." "An over-embellished story of the fish that got away."

(adj) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler. Synonyms: imperial, majestic, regal, royal. Examples: "Golden age of imperial splendor." "Purple tyrant." "Regal attire." "Treated with royal acclaim." "The royal carriage of a stag's head."