What's the difference between empurple and flowery?

Empurple


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It seemed a vast lake to me, the empurpled hills on the other side far, far away and whispering those impossible promises that only hills on the other side of a lake can promise.

Flowery


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
  • (a.) Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Khan said later: “Speakers can get carried away but they are just flowery words.” Goldsmith’s team cite Tamimi as saying that after Israel is destroyed and replaced with an Islamic state, Jews should “sail on the sea in ships back to where they came or drown in it”.
  • (2) 73 Kloof Street, +27 21 424 6169, onceincapetown.co.za The Backpack Facebook Twitter Pinterest Founder-owners Toni Shina and Lee Harris have created a homely hostel spread across four adjoining houses with cool courtyards and flowery gardens, a chillout lounge, communal kitchen, health-food cafe and terrace bar.
  • (3) While still only 20, Guinness was a flowery Osric, in Gielgud's Hamlet at the New Theatre.
  • (4) My memories of working in the shop over Christmas are of customers grabbing frantically, of men buying a pair of knickers for one girlfriend and a basque for another, of the flowery heat of the store being broken by icy gusts from the swinging door.
  • (5) Instead, those who would see abortion made illegal drape their dangerous policies in flowery language – being careful to paint women as ignorant victims, not criminals.
  • (6) It was his idea that the letters on the hotel's sign should be in a permanent state of flux – sometimes reading "flowery twats", sometimes "farty towels".
  • (7) So many teenagers are doing it.” I stare at pictures of David Beckham with his flowery sleeves, Angelina Jolie all veins and scrawls.
  • (8) Siân James (flowery dress) and Jonathan Blake (checked trousers) were key figures and are played in the film by Jessica Gunning and Dominic West.
  • (9) A woman in a flowery bathing cap swore decorously as she got in: "Flipping shit!"
  • (10) Some of the old women in their flowery housecoats, scarves knotted tightly under their chins, pushed free sweets on us, giggling and laughing, throwing their eyes to heaven.
  • (11) But it’s a different story at the Summit hotel, a low-rise, slightly old-fashioned affair set amid flowery gardens.
  • (12) with smiley ladies in flowery housecoats and for herds of cows on their way for milking.
  • (13) In an interview back in August at the teams Flowery Branch, GA HQ, Smith told me: “There were certain things that we didn’t do very well last year.
  • (14) If his unveiling was accompanied by flowery rhetoric about the club's glorious history and a "commitment to the long term", its termination was as messy, unsatisfactory and gloomy as the 10 months in between.
  • (15) "Our countryside is much more flowery than it should be," says Matthew Oates, a National Trust ecologist.
  • (16) They won't thank the west – or China, India, Russia, the African Union – for letting this Arab spring die in a field of flowery promises.
  • (17) Morrissey's style also caught his eye, as Howarth also wore his hair in a quiff, inspired by David Tennant's Doctor Who, and liked flowery shirts.
  • (18) Loss of flowery habitats and rising disease have been blamed, as well as increasing use of pesticides .
  • (19) A self-styled modern prophet, seemingly constructed of right angles, flowery superlatives and swear words, bounding around like some kind of hipster, dandy Jesus.
  • (20) Smell is a sense which triggers our emotions; it was more eloquent a tribute to Blow than any of the flowery eulogies I had read.