Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
excessively elaborate or showily expressed;
- Example: "a writer of empurpled literature"- Example: "many purple passages"- Example: "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"[syn: empurpled, over-embellished, purple]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Empurple \Em*pur"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empurpled; p. pr. &
vb. n. Empurpling.] [Pref. em- + purple. Cf. Impurple.]
To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to
impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." --Philips.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
empurpled
adj 1: excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of
empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-
embellished story of the fish that got away" [syn:
empurpled, over-embellished, purple]