Purple Englisch Deutsch:
Purple Definition:
- Purple is a color intermediate between red and blue. It is similar to violet, but unlike violet, which is a spectral color with its own wavelength on the visible spectrum of light, purple is a composite color made by combining red and blue. According to surveys In Europe and the U.S., purple is the color most often associated with royalty, magic, mystery and piety. When combined with pink, it is associated with eroticism, femininity and seduction.
| Purple (n.) A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue. |
| Purple (n.) Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color |
| Purple (n.) Hence: Imperial sovereignty |
| Purple (n.) A cardinalate. See Cardinal. |
| Purple (n.) 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. |
| Purple (n.) Any shell of the genus Purpura. |
| Purple (n.) See Purpura. |
| Purple (n.) A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle. |
| Purple (a.) Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty |
| Purple (a.) Imperial |
| purple bacteria free-living Gram-negative pink to purplish-brown bacteria containing bacteriochlorophyll |
| purple finch / Carpodacus purpureus North American finch having a raspberryed head and breast and rump |
| purple grackle / Quiscalus quiscula eastern United States grackle |
| purple martin / Progne subis large North American martin of which the male is blue-black |
| purple gallinule gallinules with showy purplish plumage |
| banded purple / white admiral Limenitis arthemis North American butterfly with blue-black wings crossed by a broad white band |
| red-spotted purple / Limenitis astyanax similar to the banded purple but with red spots on underwing surfaces |
| purple emperor / Apatura iris large European butterfly the male of which has wings shaded with purple |
| sodium thiopental / phenobarbital / phenobarbitone / Luminal / purple heart a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative |
| purple / purpleness a purple color or pigment |
Purple Synonyme:
| purple Mars violet Tyrian purple adorned amethyst amethystine befrilled blue bombastic broad cap of dignity cap of maintenance clematis colored coronet crown dahlia damson decorated diadem dynastic embellished embroidered ermine fancy festooned figurative figured florid flowery fuchsia grape great seal heliotrope high-flown hyacinth imperatorial imperatorious imperial imperial purple imperious kinglike kingly lavender lilac livid lividity lividness lush luxuriant magenta majestic mallow mauve monarchal monarchial monarchic monsignor mulberry off-color orb orchid ornate overblown overcharged overloaded pansy pansy violet pansy-purple plum plum-colored plum-purple pompous pontiff purple princelike princely privy seal purple pall purpleness purplescent purpliness purplish purplishness purply purpurate purpure purpureal purpurean purpureous queenlike queenly racy raisin-colored regal regal purple regalia robe of state rod rod of empire royal royal crown royal purple salty scepter seal shady signet solferino sovereign spicy stilted suggestive tiara triple plume turgid uraeus violaceous violet wicked wine purple |
| purple passage adornment asiaticism beauties colors colors of rhetoric device elegant variation embellishment embroidery euphuism figurative language figurativeness figure figure of speech fine writing floridity floridness flourish flower floweriness flowers of speech flowery style frill image imagery lushness luxuriance manner of speaking nonliterality nonliteralness ornament ornamentation purple patches trope turn of expression way of speaking |