Usually means: Excessively ornate or elaborate writing.
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  1. purple prose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. purple prose: Wiktionary
  3. purple prose: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. purple prose: Dictionary.com
  5. Purple prose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  2. purple prose: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. purple prose: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (purple prose)

▸ noun:  Extravagant or flowery writing, especially in a literary work.

Similar:
purple patch, prose, poetasting, beige prose, poetese, poem, prosaism, poeticism, prose poem, poeticality, more...

Opposite:
concise, succinct, terse, pithy

Types:
flowery, overwrought, ornate, grandiloquent, verbose, pretentious, exaggerated, hyperbolic, more...

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Similar:
purple patch, prose, poetasting, beige prose, poetese, poem, prosaism, poeticism, prose poem, poeticality, more...

Opposite:
concise, succinct, terse, pithy

Types:
flowery, overwrought, ornate, grandiloquent, verbose, pretentious, exaggerated, hyperbolic, more...



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