adjective [pur-poll]
FULL DEFINITION
-regal, imperial
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-of the color purple
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-highly rhetorical; ornate
-marked by profanity
SYNONYMS: aureate, florid, grandiloquent, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-flown, high-sounding, magnific, ornate, flowery, rhetorical (also rhetoric)
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noun [pur-poll]
FULL DEFINITION
-cloth dyed purple
-a garment of such color; especially a purple robe worn as an emblem of rank or authority
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-Tyrian purple
-any of various colors that fall about midway between red and blue in hue
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-a mollusk (as of the genus Purpura) yielding a purple dye and especially the Tyrian purple of ancient times
-a pigment or dye that colors purple
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-imperial or regal rank or power
-high rank or station
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verb [pur-poll]
FULL DEFINITION
-to make/become purple
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