purple
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a purple color or pigment
Types & categories
- chromatic color hypernym
- lavender hyponym
- mauve hyponym
- reddish purple hyponym
- reddish blue hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
become purple
Types & categories
- discolour hypernym
Related & opposite
- purple derivation
Sense 3 adjective
of a color intermediate between red and blue
Related & opposite
- purple derivation
- reddish blue derivation
- chromatic similar to
Sense 4 noun
of imperial status
he was born to the purple
Types & categories
- noblesse hypernym
Related & opposite
- regal derivation
Sense 5 verb
color purple
Types & categories
- color hypernym
Related & opposite
- purple derivation
Sense 6 adjective
excessively elaborate or showily expressed
a writer of empurpled literature
Related & opposite
- rhetorical similar to
Sense 7 adjective
belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
golden age of imperial splendor
Related & opposite
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | empurple |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | purple |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | purple |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | chromatic color |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | lavender |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mauve |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | reddish purple |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | reddish blue |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | purple |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | discolour |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | purple |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | reddish blue |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | chromatic |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | regal |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | noblesse |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | purple |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | color |
| 6 | similar to | Related & opposite | rhetorical |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | emperor |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | purple |
| 7 | similar to | Related & opposite | noble |