Unpurple

adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To (cause to) cease to be purple.

    "As some clown drunk with fumes of trodden wine,"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not purple, not having purple as its color. not-comparable, rare

    "Befuddled, Edell looked to see other Keshiri dancing onto the streets, dressed in black with their faces painted in a variety of unpurple hues."

  2. 2
    Not ornate; not being purple prose or poetry. not-comparable, rare

    "Thus, in his most recent report to the President, Charles E. Wilson (whose prose is probably quite unpurple when left alone) manages in the first two sentences to allude to "America's military might," "a mighty America," […]"

Example

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"Befuddled, Edell looked to see other Keshiri dancing onto the streets, dressed in black with their faces painted in a variety of unpurple hues."

Etymology

From un- + purple.

Related phrases

purple prose

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