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BLUENESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime

Example:

he had eyes of bright blue

Synonyms:

blue; blueness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("blueness" is a kind of...):

chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blueness"):

azure; cerulean; lazuline; sapphire; sky-blue (a light shade of blue)

powder blue (a pale blue color with grey in it)

steel blue (a greyish blue color)

Prussian blue (a dark greenish-blue color)

dark blue; navy; navy blue (a dark shade of blue)

aqua; aquamarine; cobalt blue; greenish blue; peacock blue; turquoise (a shade of blue tinged with green)

purplish blue; royal blue (a shade of blue tinged with purple)

ultramarine (a vivid blue to purple-blue color)

Derivation:

blue (of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky)

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