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Antonyms for purple
ˈpɜr pəlpur·ple

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  1. purple, purplenessnoun

    a purple color or pigment

    Antonyms:
    unrhetorical, achromatic, neutral, lowborn

    Synonyms:
    purpleness

  2. purpleadjective

    of imperial status

    "he was born to the purple"

    Antonyms:
    neutral, lowborn, achromatic, unrhetorical

    Synonyms:
    purpleness

  3. purple, violet, purplishadjective

    of a color intermediate between red and blue

    Antonyms:
    achromatic, unrhetorical, lowborn, neutral

    Synonyms:
    empurpled, over-embellished, violet, regal, majestic, imperial, royal, purplish

  4. empurpled, over-embellished, purpleadjective

    excessively elaborate or showily expressed

    "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"

    Antonyms:
    unrhetorical, neutral, lowborn, achromatic

    Synonyms:
    empurpled, over-embellished, violet, regal, majestic, imperial, royal, purplish

  5. imperial, majestic, purple, regal, royalverb

    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"

    Antonyms:
    achromatic, neutral, unrhetorical, lowborn

    Synonyms:
    over-embellished, olympian, empurpled, proud, lofty, violet, regal, imperial, majestic, royal, purplish, gallant

  6. purpleverb

    become purple

    Antonyms:
    neutral, achromatic, lowborn, unrhetorical

    Synonyms:
    empurple, purpurate

  7. purple, empurple, purpurateverb

    color purple

    Antonyms:
    achromatic, lowborn, unrhetorical, neutral

    Synonyms:
    empurple, purpurate

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  1. ecosystem

    Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

How to use purple in a sentence?

  1. Mitch McConnell:

    So what I've said about the presidential race -- and this is as far as I'm going to go so I'll save your time peppering me with questions about the presidential race -- we'd like to have a nominee who can carry purple states.

  2. Jeff Kaufmann:

    In the last couple of elections cycles, we’ve become redder. But I still refer to us as a deep purple or purplish red state. We are not a deep red state.

  3. Jennifer Glass:

    However, in the deep past, before oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere, these purple bacteria might have proliferated to such an extent that they could have been detectable on the Earth's surface.

  4. Larry Hogan:

    If the former president interferes with the primaries and tries to help nominate folks that are unelectable in a general election in, say, swing districts and purple states, that's gon na hurt.

  5. Marchello Faulkner:

    I did a messed up move by laying him down because he kept saying, 'I'm fixing to die, I'm fixing to die,' he started sweating even more. His body and face started turning purple and the man lost his bowels, then his eyes go in back of his head (and) he stopped breathing.

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#5908neutral
#94143achromatic

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