empurpled

1. 1.

   excessively elaborate or showily expressed

   “a writer of empurpled literature”

   “many purple passages”

   “an over-embellished story of the fish that got away”

   Synonymsover-embellishedpurple

   Similarrhetorical

Other forms of empurpled

comparative

empurpledder·

superlative

empurpleddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about empurpled

What does empurpled mean?

empurpled means "excessively elaborate or showily expressed".

How many syllables are in empurpled?

empurpled has 2 syllables: empur-pled. The stress falls on "empur".

What is another word for empurpled?

Close synonyms include over-embellished, purple. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is empurpled a common word?

empurpled is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.