purplest
Deepest in mauve
Purplest is the superlative of purple—the most purple something can be.
It appears more often in figurative uses than literal ones: the purplest prose is the most overwrought and florid, the purplest bruise the most vivid.
That was the purplest passage in the whole novel.
Small five-petaled wildflower
- magentaVivid purplish-red hue
- lavenderFragrant herb, pale violet
- lilacPale purple hue
- plumSoft stone fruit
amethyst · mauve · grape · eggplant · mulberry · periwinkle · indigo · heather
Excessively ornate or ruddy
- grandiloquentPretentiously elevated in speech
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
- ornateElaborately decorated
- bombasticExcessively inflated language
flowery · melodramatic · overwritten · extravagant · verbose · turgid · rhetorical · hyperbolic
violet
Small five-petaled wildflower
plum · amethyst · mauve · grape · eggplant · mulberry · periwinkle · indigo · heather · iris
florid
Excessively ornate or ruddy
- grandiloquentPretentiously elevated in speech
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
- ornateElaborately decorated
bombastic · flowery · melodramatic · overwritten · extravagant · verbose · turgid · rhetorical · hyperbolic · theatrical
deepest
Superlative of depth
- dark purpleViolet with depth
- purple riceDeeply pigmented cereal grain
- Purple HeartMilitary wound decoration
- purple flowersBlooms in violet hues
- purple hazeViolet-tinted atmospheric conditions
- The Color PurpleWalker's Pulitzer-winning novel