purple
[adjective]
Synonyms: risqué, blue, broad, off-color, racy, salty, shady, spicy, suggestive, wicked, rhetorical, bombastic, florid, flowery, high-flown, oratorical, overblown, pompous, stilted, turgid

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I. pur‧ple¹ /ˈpɜːpəl $ ˈpɜːr-/ noun [uncountable]
[Date: 900-1000; Language: Latin; Origin: purpura, from Greek porphyra type of shellfish from which purple coloring was obtained]
a dark colour that is a mixture of red and blue

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II. purple² adjective

1. having a dark colour that is a mixture of red and blue

2. purple with rage/purple in the face etc with a face that is dark red, caused by anger:
His face turned purple with rage.

3. purple patch a time when you are very successful – used especially in news reports:
Steve’s purple patch continued with a second victory on Tuesday.

4. purple prose/passage writing that uses difficult or unusual words – used in order to show disapproval

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purple
adj.
ADV. almost | slightly
ADJ. bright, vivid | dark, deep, rich | light, pale
PHRASES purple in the face, purple with rage He turned purple with rage.
 ⇒ Special page at COLOUR

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