Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
purple (adjective)1.
- regal imperial
2.
of the color purple
3.
a) highly rhetorical - ornate
b) marked by profanity
1.
a) (1) cloth dyed purple
(2) a garment of such color , especially a purple robe worn as an emblem of rank or authority
b) (1) - tyrian purple
(2) any of various colors that fall about midway between red and blue in hue
c) (1) a mollusk (as of the genus ) yielding a purple dye and especially the Tyrian purple of ancient times - Purpura
(2) a pigment or dye that colors purple
2.
a) imperial or regal rank or power
b) high rank or station
transitive verb
intransitive verb
to make purple to become purple
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
purple (adjective)full of fine words and fancy expressions
SYNONIMS:
aureate, florid, grandiloquent, highfalutin ( hifalutin), high-flown, high-sounding, magnific, ornate, purple, rhetorical ( rhetoric)RELATED WORDS:
affected, bloated, fancy-pants, grandiose, inflated, pompous, pretentious, stilted; excessive, flattering, fulsome; boastful, bombastic; elevated, eloquent, lofty; bookish, inkhorn, learnedNEAR ANTONYMS:
prosaic, unpoetic; bald, direct, lean, matter-of-fact, plain, plainspoken, simple, spare, stark, straightforward, unadorned; natural, unaffected, unpretentious