1 having the colour of blue and red mixed together:
a purple flower / bruise * His face was purple with rage.
2 ~ prose / passage writing or a piece of writing that is too grand in style
purple noun [U,C]:
She was dressed in purple.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for purple is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is purple a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, purple is tagged as adjective.
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