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unpurple

unpurple adjective: not purple, not having purple as its color.

Adjective

unpurple (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Not purple, not having purple as its color.
    • Befuddled, Edell looked to see other Keshiri dancing onto the streets, dressed in black with their faces painted in a variety of unpurple hues.2012, John Jackson Miller, Lost Tribe of the Sith: Star Wars Legends: The Collected Stories, →ISBN
    • He used his unpurple arm to pull his purple arm around my shoulder.2014, Megan Jean Sovern, The Meaning of Maggie, →ISBN, page 113
  2. (rare) Not ornate; not being purple prose or poetry.
    • 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," […]1952, The Reporter, volume 6, page 35
    • Subsequently Cooper became press agent for the Tammen-Bonfils circus and acquired the sawdust lore which he utilized effectively in a lean, hard-hitting, entirely unpurple style for many of his popular magazine stories.1959, Robert L. Perkin, The First Hundred Years: An Informal History of Denver

Verb

unpurple (third-person singular simple present unpurples, present participle unpurpling, simple past and past participle unpurpled)

  1. To (cause to) cease to be purple.
    • As some clown drunk with fumes of trodden wine,a. 1895, John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley), The Death of Phaethon, in The Collected Poems of Lord De Tabley (1903), page 396

unpurple meaning in Bengali

unpurple in Bengali

বেগুনি নয়, অলঙ্কারপূর্ণ নয়, বেগুনি গদ্য, কবিতা নয়, বেগুনি হওয়া বন্ধ করা

Forms of unpurple

third-person singular presentunpurples
present participleunpurpling
past participleunpurpled
pastunpurpled

Origin of unpurple

From un- + purple.

Words that rhyme with unpurple

Questions about unpurple

What does unpurple mean?
Unpurple means not purple, not having purple as its color.
What is unpurple in Bengali?
Unpurple in Bengali is বেগুনি নয়, অলঙ্কারপূর্ণ নয়, বেগুনি গদ্য. See Unpurple meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is unpurple?
Unpurple can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near unpurple in the dictionary

  1. unpuritanical
  2. unpuritanically
  3. unpurled
  4. unpurliteness
  5. unpurloined
  6. unpurple
  7. unpurpled
  8. unpurples
  9. unpurpling
  10. unpurpose
  11. unpurposed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpurple (page history and authors); unpurple (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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