purple | Definition of purple

Synonyms and Antonyms of purple

full of fine words and fancy expressions

an overwritten novel with far too many purple patches

Synonyms of purple

aureate, florid, flowery, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, highfalutin (also hifalutin), magnific, ornate, rhetorical (also rhetoric)

Words Related to purple

affected, bloated, fancy-pants, grandiose, inflated, pompous, pretentious, stilted

excessive, flattering, fulsome

boastful, bombastic

elevated, eloquent, lofty

bookish, inkhorn, learned

Near Antonyms of purple

prosaic, unpoetic

bald, direct, lean, matter-of-fact, plain, plainspoken, simple, spare, stark, straightforward, unadorned

natural, unaffected, unpretentious