unpurple
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not ornate; not being purple prose or poetry.
Example Sentences
- "Befuddled, Edell looked to see other Keshiri dancing onto the streets, dressed in black with their faces painted in a variety of unpurple hues."
- "He used his unpurple arm to pull his purple arm around my shoulder."
- "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," […]"
- "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."
- "[…] is as unpurple prose as can be found anywhere."
- "As some clown drunk with fumes of trodden wine,"
Etymology
From un- + purple.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un