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What is the adjective for purplely?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb purple which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

purple
  1. Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue.
  2. (politics) Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support, as in purple state, purple city.
  3. (in Netherlands and Belgium) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
  4. Imperial; regal.
  5. (of language) Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. grandiloquent, florid, flowery, rhetorical, ornate, highfalutin, aureate, rhetoric, elaborate, magnific, exaggerated, hifalutin, overwritten, excessive, overheated, high-flown, high-sounding, over the top, bombastic, oratorical, magniloquent, fustian, orotund, overripe, overblown, euphuistic, turgid, pretentious, tumid, overwrought, overdone, inflated, verbose, grandiose, declamatory, pompous, windy, ostentatious, flamboyant, sonorous, Ossianic, affected, labored, laboured, extravagant, strained, hyperventilated, eloquent, hyperbolic, lofty … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “I suppose you were too busy writing your purple prose to approach Flagstaff Life and ask for their version of events.”
purpuric
  1. (medicine) purple (of spots which appear on the skin); pertaining to or affected with purpura
  2. (chemistry) purple in colour; derived from or forming a substance which is purple; derived from or forming purpuric acid
  3. Examples:
      4. “These lesions included papular, urticarial, purpuric, pustular, and eczematoid changes, such as papular urticaria.”
      “Depending on their size, purpuric lesions are traditionally classified as petechiae, purpura or ecchymoses.”
      “Clinically, progressive purpuric skin lesions and diffuse oozing from skin puncture sites are observed, often within hours of birth.”
purpurous
  1. (archaic) Purple.
  2. (medicine) Of or relating to purpura.
purply
  1. Of or having somewhat of a purple color or hue.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. purplish, purplely
  3. Examples:
      4. “The sunset painted the sky with a purply hue.”
      “Under our feet was the purple heath with great patches of whortleberry, that tiny shrub that bears the little purply grey fruit.”
      “Her eggs were four of dusky hue Blotched brown as is the very ground With tinges of a purply hue The larger ends encircling round.”
purpuriferous
  1. Producing a purple pigment.
purpurogenous
  1. (biology) Having the power to produce a purple colour.
purpuriparous
  1. Synonym of purpuriferous
purplish
  1. Somewhat purple in colour/color.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. purply, purplely
  3. Examples:
      4. “I saw a purplish hue in the sunset sky as the day turned to dusk.”
      “Ploughman's Spikenard is a tall, but rather plain plant with purplish stems and dull yellow flowers.”
      “It is an evergreen or semi-evergreen multi-stemmed shrub with lance shaped leaves that are purplish when young and flushed with colour in autumn.”
purpureal
  1. Of a purple color.
purplely
  1. (rare) somewhat purple
  2. Synonyms:
      3. purplish, purply
  3. Examples:
      4. “The flowers in the garden were purplely, casting a vibrant burst of color amidst the greenery.”
purpre
  1. (obsolete) purple
purpler
  1. comparative form of purple: more purple
  2. Synonyms:
      3. flowerier, more grandiloquent, more florid, more ornate, more highfalutin, more aureate, more elaborate, more magnific, more exaggerated, more hifalutin, more excessive, more overheated, more high-flown, more over the top, more bombastic, more magniloquent, more orotund, more overripe, more overblown, more turgid, more pretentious, more tumid, more overwrought, more overdone, more inflated, more verbose, more grandiose, more declamatory, more pompous, windier, more ostentatious, more flamboyant, more sonorous, more Ossianic, more affected, more laboured, more labored, more extravagant, more strained, more eloquent, loftier, more hyperbolic, more formal, more pleonastic, more stilted, more articulate, more convoluted, mouthier, more effusive, wordier … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Niaz's face, already livid, grew purpler and purpler as they wrestled with one another on the carpet in that deadly effort.”
      “My body was purpler than a huckleberry pie, and my linen was torn into pieces finer than a postage-stamp.”
      “Torres's three goals against Madrid and Barcelona, after a combined two and half minutes of the start, was good, but this patch was even purpler.”
purplest
  1. superlative form of purple: most purple
  2. Synonyms:
      3. floweriest, most grandiloquent, most florid, most ornate, most highfalutin, most aureate, most elaborate, most magnific, most exaggerated, most hifalutin, most excessive, most overheated, most high-flown, most over the top, most bombastic, most magniloquent, most orotund, most overripe, most overblown, most turgid, most pretentious, most tumid, most overwrought, most overdone, most inflated, most verbose, most grandiose, most declamatory, most pompous, windiest, most ostentatious, most flamboyant, most sonorous, most Ossianic, most affected, most labored, most laboured, most extravagant, most strained, most eloquent, loftiest, most hyperbolic, most formal, most pleonastic, most stilted, most articulate, most convoluted, mouthiest, most effusive, wordiest … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Four years ago in New Zealand he was in the purplest patch of his career, but since then injuries and the critics have not been kind.”
      “Thornton jumped out of the car and spent the next hour ignoring lightning while picking the beans and a few handfuls of kale — only the smallest, purplest leaves closest to the heart.”
      “Equally adept with breaks are Bitstream, and Shed, who after an uncertain start where he can't decide if he wants to be junglist or not, settles into the purplest patch of the weekend.”
purplier
  1. comparative form of purply: more purply
  2. Synonyms:
      3. more purplish, more purplely
purpliest
  1. superlative form of purply: most purply
  2. Synonyms:
      3. most purplish, most purplely
purpled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of purple
purpling
  1. present participle of purple
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