purple

purple is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue.
2. noun. Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple.
3. noun. Hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth.
4. noun. A cardinalate. See Cardinal.
5. noun. Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis) as, the banded purple (B. arthemis). See Illust. under Ursula.
6. noun. Any shell of the genus Purpura.
7. noun. See Purpura.
8. noun. A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle.
9. adjective. Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe.
10. adjective. Imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority.
11. adjective. Blood-red; bloody.
12. transitive verb. To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood.
13. noun. a purple color or pigment

    Synonyms: purpleness

14. noun. of imperial status

    "he was born to the purple"

15. verb. color purple

    Synonyms: empurple, purpurate

16. verb. become purple
17. adjective. of a color intermediate between red and blue

    Synonyms: purplish, violet

18. adjective. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler

    "golden age of imperial splendor"

    "purple tyrant"

    Synonyms: imperial, majestic, regal, royal

19. adjective. excessively elaborate or showily expressed

    "a writer of empurpled literature"

    "many purple passages"

    Synonyms: empurpled

Synonyms

purpleness, empurple, purpurate, purplish, violet, imperial, majestic, regal, royal, empurpled

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in purple:

pulper

Common word forms

purpled, purpler, purples, purplely, purplest, purpling, purpleness

Words from these letters

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