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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
empurpled is an adjective meaning "excessively elaborate or showily expressed". It carries one recorded sense.
excessively elaborate or showily expressed
“a writer of empurpled literature”
“many purple passages”
“an over-embellished story of the fish that got away”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for empurpled come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.