Definition of purple

"purple" in the noun sense

1. purple, purpleness

a purple color or pigment

2. purple, the purple

in ancient Rome) position of imperial status

"he was born to the purple"

3. purple, the purple

Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes

"purple" in the verb sense

1. purple

become purple

2. purple, empurple, purpurate

color purple

"purple" in the adjective sense

1. purple, violet, purplish

of a color intermediate between red and blue

2. empurpled, over-embellished, purple

excessively elaborate or showily expressed

"a writer of empurpled literature"

"many purple passages"

"an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"

3. imperial, majestic, purple, regal, royal

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"

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Quotations for purple

The purple heath and golden broom
On moory mountains catch the gale.
O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume.
The violet in the vale. [ Montgomery ]

No real happiness is found
In trailing purple over the ground. [ Parnell ]

When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away,
And in a dream as in a fairy bark
Drift on and on through the enchanted dark
To purple daybreak - little thought we pay
To that sweet bitter world we know by day. [ T. B. Aldrich ]

Expression is the dress of thought, and
Appears more decent as more suitable;
A vile conceit in pompous words expressed,
Is like a clown in regal purple dressed. [ Pope ]

He bore a simple wild-flower wreath:
Narcissus, and the sweet brier rose;
Vervain, and flexile thyme, that breathe
Rich fragrance; modest heath, that glows
With purple bells; the amaranth bright.
That no decay, nor fading knows.
Like true love's holiest, rarest light;
And every purest flower, that blows,
In that sweet time, which Love most blesses,
When spring on summer's confines presses. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

The foxglove, with its stately bells,
Of purple, shall adorn thy dells;
The wallflower, on each rifted rock,
From liberal blossoms shall breathe down,
(Gold blossoms frecked with iron-brown,)
Its fragrance; while the hollyhock,
The pink, and the carnation vie
With lupin and with lavender.
To decorate the fading year;
And larkspurs, many-hued, shall drive
Gloom from the groves, where red leaves lie.
And Nature seems but half alive. [ D. M. Moir ]

Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird.
Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales
The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer,
Kisses the blushing leaf. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

'Tis midnight now. The bent and broken moon,
Battered and black, as from a thousand battles,
Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven. [ Joaquin Miller ]

The eastern hanging crescent climbeth higher;
See, purple on the azure softly steals.
And Morning, faintly touched with quivering fire
Leans on the frosty summits of the hills,
Like a young girl over her hoary sire. [ Roscoe ]

There bloomed the strawberry of the wilderness;
The trembling eyebright showed her sapphire blue,
The thyme her purple, like the blush of Even;
And if the breath of some to no caress
Invited, forth they peeped so fair to view.
All kinds alike seemed favorites of heaven. [ Wordsworth ]

The bloom of young desire and purple light of love. [ Gay ]

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple. [ Thoreau ]

The morrow, fair with purple beams, dispersed the shadows of the misty night. [ Spenser ]

Women of the world never use harsh expressions when condemning their rivals. Like the savage, they hurl elegant arrows, ornamented with feathers of purple and azure, but with poisoned points.

The generality of princes, if they were stripped of their purple and cast naked on the world, would immediately sink to the lowest rank of society, without a hope of emerging from their obscurity. [ Gibbon ]

Nature is sanitive, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. [ Emerson ]

purple in Scrabble®

The word purple is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters purple:

PURPLE
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PULPER
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PULPER
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In purple

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purple in Words With Friends™

The word purple is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters purple:

PULPER
(78)
 

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In purple

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Words within the letters of purple

2 letter words in purple (4 words)

3 letter words in purple (5 words)

4 letter words in purple (5 words)

5 letter words in purple (1 word)

6 letter words in purple (Anagrams) (2 words)

purple + 2 blanks (5 words)

Words containing the sequence purple

Words with purple in them (1 word)

Words that end with purple (1 word)

Word Growth involving purple

Shorter words in purple

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Longer words containing purple

purpled

purpleheart purplehearts

purpleness

purpler

purples purplest