purple

nouns

a purple color or pigment
purple, purpleness
is derived from
purpurate
of imperial status
"he was born to the purple"
purple
is a type of (narrower)
the state of being of noble birth
nobility, noblesse

verbs

become purple
purple
is a type of (narrower)
change color, often in an undesired manner
"The shirts discolored"
color, colour, discolor, discolour
color purple
empurple, purple, purpurate

adjectives

of a color intermediate between red and blue
purple, purplish, violet
is derived from
purpleness
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, purple
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"
imperial, majestic, purple, regal, royal