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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | blue and red colors mixed together |
| Synonyms: | amaranthine, amethyst, blue-violet, bluish red, color, heliotrope, lavender, lilac, magenta, mauve, mulberry, orchid, periwinkle, perse, plum, pomegranate, reddish blue, violaceous, violet, wine |
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| Concept: | Purple. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; complementary colors |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
purple; blue and red, bishop's purple; aniline dyes, gridelin, amethyst; purpure; heliotrope., lividness, lividity.
-verbs
empurple.
-adjectives
purple, violet, plum-colored, lavender, lilac, puce, mauve; livid.
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| Main Entry: | broad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar |
| Synonyms: | blue, coarse, dirty, gross, improper, indecent, indelicate, low-minded, off-color, purple, racy, risqué, salty, saucy, smutty, spicy, suggestive, unrefined, unrestrained, wicked |
| Main Entry: | erotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sexy |
| Synonyms: | amative, amatory, amorous, aphrodisiac, bawdy, blue*, carnal, concupiscent, earthy, erogenous, fervid, filthy, fleshly, hot*, impassioned, kinky*, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, obscene, off-color, prurient, purple*, raunchy, raw, romantic, rousing, salacious, seductive, sensual, sexual, spicy, steamy, stimulating, suggestive, titillating, venereal, voluptuous |
| Notes: | erotic means giving sexual pleasure or sexually arousing, while exotic means being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world or strikingly strange or unusual |
| Antonyms: | bland, cold, dull, frigid, unerotic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flowery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ornate, especially referring to speech or writing |
| Synonyms: | aureate, baroque, bombastic, declamatory, diffuse, embellished, euphemistic, euphuistic, fancy, figurative, florid, grandiloquent, high-flown, magniloquent, ornamented, overwrought, prolix, purple, redundant, rhetorical, rococo, sonorous, swollen, verbose, windy, wordy |
| Antonyms: | inelaborate, plain, unembellished, unflowery, unornate |
| Main Entry: | grandiloquent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretentious, flowery (communication) |
| Synonyms: | aureate, big-talking, bombastic, declamatory, euphistic, fustian, high-flown, histrionic, inflated, magniloquent, oratorical, orotund, overblown, pompous, purple*, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen, tall-talking, verbose, windbag, windy |
| Notes: | grandiloquent means lofty in style, pompous, or bombastic; magniloquent means lofty and extravagant in speech |
| Antonyms: | plain, simple, unadorned, unpretentious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grandiose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | theatrical, extravagant |
| Synonyms: | affected, ambitious, august, bombastic, cosmic, egotistic, flamboyant, fustian, grand, high-falutin', high-flown, imposing, impressive, lofty, lordly, magnificent, majestic, monumental, noble, ostentatious, overwhelming, pompous, pretentious, purple*, royal, showy, splashy, stately, unfathomable, vast |
| Antonyms: | calm, moderate, small, unpretentious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | livid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bruised |
| Synonyms: | black-and-blue, contused, purple |
| Notes: | lurid means horrible in fierceness or savagery or glaringly graphic, while livid means very angry or furious |
| Main Entry: | lurid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shocking, gruesome |
| Synonyms: | ashen, bloody, deep, disgusting, distinct, exaggerated, extreme, fiery, ghastly, gory, graphic, grim, grisly, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, livid, low-down, macabre, melodramatic, obscene, off-color, offensive, purple*, racy, raunchy, revolting, rough, salty, sanguine*, savage, sensational, sinister, startling, terrible, terrifying, violent, vivid, yellow* |
| Notes: | lurid means horrible in fierceness or savagery or glaringly graphic, while livid means very angry or furious |
| Antonyms: | clean, humble, modest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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