Tra từ purple - Từ điển WordNet v3.1

I - noun

1. a purple color or pigment (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
purpleness
• Derivationally related forms:
purple (for: purpleness), purpurate
• Hypernyms:
chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
• Hyponyms:
lavender, mauve, reddish purple, royal purple, violet, reddish blue
2. of imperial status
- he was born to the purple
• Hypernyms:
nobility, noblesse

II - verb

1. become purple
• Hypernyms:
discolor, discolour, colour, color
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
2. color purple
• Syn:
empurple, purpurate
• Derivationally related forms:
purple (for: purpurate)
• Hypernyms:
color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize,
colour, color in, colour in
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something

III - adjective

1. of a color intermediate between red and blue (Freq. 9)
• Syn:
violet, purplish
• Similar to:
chromatic
• Derivationally related forms:
violet (for: violet), purpleness
2. 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
• Syn:
imperial, majestic, regal, royal
• Similar to:
noble
• Derivationally related forms:
emperor (for: imperial)
3. excessively elaborate or showily expressed
- a writer of empurpled literature
- many purple passages
- an over-embellished story of the fish that got away
• Syn:
empurpled, over-embellished
• Similar to:
rhetorical