purple

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Synonyms: purile, purfle, purply, purpre, hurple, curple, purtle

Antonyms: purile, purfle, purply, purpre, hurple, curple, purtle

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Noun

1. {{senseid|en|Q3257809}}A colour between [[red]] and [[blue]]; [[violet]], though often closer to magenta.
2. {{lb|en|colour theory}} Any non-[[spectral]] colour on the [[line of purples]] on a colour [[chromaticity]] diagram or a [[colour wheel]] between violet and red.
3. Cloth, or a [[garment]], dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple [[robe]], worn as an [[emblem]] of rank or [[authority]]; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
4. {{lb|en|by extension}} Imperial power.
5. {{senseid|en|mollusk species}}Any of various species of [[mollusk]]s from which [[Tyrian purple]] dye was obtained, especially the common [[dog whelk]].
6. The [[purple haze]] [[cultivar]] of [[cannabis]] in the [[kush]] family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked [[marijuana]].
7. {{lb|en|medicine}} [[purpura|Purpura]].
8. [[earcockle|Earcockle]], a disease of wheat.
9. Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus {{taxlink|Basilarchia|genus}} (formerly {{taxfmt|Limenitis|genus}}).
10. A [[cardinalate]].
11. {{lb|en|slang|US}} {{ellipsis of|en|purple drank}}.
12. {{lb|en|UK|slang}} {{synonym of|en|snakebite and black}}.

Adjective

1. Of a purple hue.
2. {{lb|en|US politics}} Not [[predominant]]ly [[red]] or [[blue]], but having a mixture of [[Democrat]] and [[Republican]] support.
3. {{lb|en|[[Belgium]]|[[Netherlands]]}} Mixed between [[social democrat]]s and [[liberal]]s.
4. [[imperial|Imperial]]; [[regal]].
5. [[blood-red|Blood-red]]; [[bloody]].
6. {{lb|en|literature}} Of [[language]], [[extravagantly]] [[ornate]], like [[purple prose]].
7. {{lb|en|motor racing}} Of a [[sector]], [[lap]], etc., [[completed]] in the [[fastest]] time so far in a given [[session]].

Verb

1. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To turn purple in colour.
2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To dye purple.
3. {{lb|en|transitive}} To clothe in purple.

Proper noun

1. {{lb|en|rare}} {{surname|en|from=Middle English}}.

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