What does purpureal mean?
Purpureal means (literary, poetic) Of a purple colour..
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/pɜːˈpjʊə.ɹɪ.əl/ · adjective
(literary, poetic) Of a purple colour..
[G]liding thro' his daughter's honour'd ſhades, / The ſmooth Penéus from his glaſſy flood / Reflects purpureal Tempe's pleaſant ſcene?
[T]he fair star / That gems the glittering coronet of morn, / Sheds not a light so mild, so powerful, / As that which, bursting from the Fairy's form, / Spread a purpureal halo round the scene, / Yet with an undulating motion, / Swayed to her outline gracefully.
Of all that is most beauteous—imaged there / In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, / An ampler ether, a diviner air, / And fields invested with purpureal gleams; [...]
But not ere him who summoneth / I first have seen, enwound / With glooming robes purpureal, cypress-crowned; [...]
Above the altar-lace / he mounted a triptych of the Assumption / with coarse, purpureal clouds, a prescient Madonna / drawn from Leonardo's "Our Lady of the Rocks."
Use purpureal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Purpureal means (literary, poetic) Of a purple colour..
Common synonyms include purple, purpuraceous, purpurate, purpure.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[G]liding thro' his daughter's honour'd ſhades, / The ſmooth Penéus from his glaſſy flood / Reflects purpureal Tempe's pleaſant ſcene?
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