purple

(s) of a color intermediate between red and blue purplish, violet,
(s) excessively elaborate or showily expressed
- a writer of empurpled literature
- many purple passages
- an over-embellished story of the fish that got away
empurpled, over-embellished,
(s) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
- golden age of imperial splendor
- purple tyrant
- regal attire
- treated with royal acclaim
- the royal carriage of a stag's head
regal, majestic, imperial, royal,

purpleness purplish violet empurpled over-embellished empurple purpurate regal majestic imperial royal

purple amaranth purple anise purple apricot purple avens purple bacteria purple beech purple-black purple-blue purple boneset purple-brown purple chinese houses purple clematis purple clover purple cress purple emperor purple-eyed purple finch purple-flowered purple-flowering raspberry purple-fringed orchid purple-fringed orchis purple fringeless orchid purple fringeless orchis purple gallinule purple grackle purple granadillo purple-green purple ground cherry purple heart purple heather purple-hooded orchis purple-lilac purple loco purple locoweed purple loosestrife purple martin purple milk vetch purple mullein purpleness purple nightshade purple onion purple orchis purple osier purple passage purple pea purple poppy mallow purple-red purple rock brake purple sage purple sanicle purple saxifrage purple silkweed purple-spotted purple-staining Cortinarius purple-stemmed aster purple strawberry guava purple-tinged purple-tinted purple trillium purple-veined purple velvet plant purple virgin's bower purple-white purple willow