what does empurpled mean?
EMPURPLED as NOUN
- Meaning
- a chromatic color between red and blue
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Hypernyms(s) empurpled is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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EMPURPLED as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- excessively elaborate or showily expressed
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Usage Example(s)
- a writer of empurpled literature
- many purple passages
- speech embellished with classical quotations
- an over-embellished story of the fish that got away
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