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BLUENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)