progressive vs purple

progressive

adj
  • Liberal. 

  • Advancing in severity. 

  • Of or relating to progressive education. 

  • Favouring or promoting progress; advanced. 

  • Continuous. 

  • Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods. 

  • Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases. 

  • Gradually advancing in extent; increasing. 

noun
  • A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing. 

  • A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government. 

purple

adj
  • Mixed between social democrats and liberals. 

  • Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session. 

  • Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose. 

  • Imperial; regal. 

  • Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support. 

  • Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue. 

  • Blood-red; bloody. 

noun
  • Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis). 

  • Purpura. 

  • The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana. 

  • Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk. 

  • Earcockle, a disease of wheat. 

  • A cardinalate. 

  • A color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta. 

  • Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red. 

  • Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity. 

  • Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings. 

verb
  • To clothe in purple. 

  • To dye purple. 

  • To turn purple in colour. 

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