purple

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So let's have fun and craft a purple logo, shall we?

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Quick take

a purple color or pigment

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of purple gathered in one view.

noun

a purple color or pigment

noun

of imperial status; "he was born to the purple"

verb

become purple

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for purple.

noun

a purple color or pigment

noun

of imperial status; "he was born to the purple"

verb

become purple

verb

color purple

adjective

of a color intermediate between red and blue

adjective

excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"

adjective

belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head"

See also: imperial, majestic, regal, royal

Example sentences

So let's have fun and craft a purple logo, shall we?

" - thought the graphic designer - "a mix of red and blue is purple, not white!

If someone wants to spend $10,000 per day buying purple carrot pixels, why shouldn't we milk them dry?

" So he replaced the white in the middle cell with purple, leaving the neighboring pinks and light blues unchanged.

I'm a 23 year old with purple hair, but I'm also a PhD student at a top 10 university for computer science.

Some colors like blue and yellow are not affected, but shades of green, orange, brown, red, pink and purple are muddled and washed out.

By "like big canvases of entirely purple", you're probably referring to Yves Klein, who I think is actually a bad example for what you're getting at. Klein was interested in a kind of total, pure experience of color.

Physic, shaders and purple monkey dishwasher; I'm surprised you got this far before signing up for our email notification subscription.

But then they would just have had a few colors with more or less the sale lightness and saturation, but different hues, and there's really no intuitive reason why purple should be perceived as "more" or "less" than blue.

That big tall lavender bar in 2009 is the dark purple lines from a few years prior....None of this has anything to do with an excess of caution or with AAA debt being more systemically dangerous than other types of debt.