purple
noun
any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
purplest
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superlativeof purple.superlative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating the greatest degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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We’re inviting readers to write their own over-the-top ode to the weather: Give us a paragraph about the recent heat wave, in your purplest prose.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2013
Last fortnight Critic Olin Downes paid Moriz Rosenthal homage in a nostalgic vein with the purplest passage in the modern, if not the entire, history of the New York Times.
From Time Magazine Archive
It achieved its purplest popularity between 1895 and 1900, was fading fast by 1914.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Well, he's the purplest plum I ever saw," said Dawn.
From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin
The skies are at their bluest, now; the woods and fields are at their greenest; flowers are blooming their yellowest, and purplest, and scarletest.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870 by Various
