Hyphenation of purple

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word purple? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

pur-ple

Definitions of purple:

1.	A purple color or pigment
2.	Of imperial status He was born to the purple
3.	Become purple
4.	Color purple
5.	Of a color intermediate between red and blue
6.	Excessively elaborate or showily expressed A writer of empurpled literature Many purple passages An over-embellished story of the fish that got away
7.	Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler Golden age of imperial splendor Purple tyrant Regal attire Treated with royal acclaim The royal carriage of a stag's head

Synonyms of purple:

adj	violet, purplish, chromatic
adj	embellished, empurpled, over-embellished, rhetorical
adj	imperial, majestic, regal, royal, noble
noun	purpleness, empurpled, chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
noun	nobility, noblesse
verb	discolor, discolour, colour, color
verb	empurple, purpurate, color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.