A World of Color: Blue

Brush up on this list of words for different shades of blue.

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  1. aqua
    a shade of blue tinged with green
  2. aquamarine
    a shade of blue tinged with green
  3. azure
    a light shade of blue
  4. blue
    color resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
  5. blueberry
    sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants
  6. blue green
    a blue-green color or pigment
  7. bright blue
    bright blue in color, like a clear sky
  8. cerulean
    a light shade of blue
  9. cobalt blue
    a shade of blue tinged with green
  10. cobalt ultramarine
    greenish-blue pigment consisting essentially of cobalt oxide and alumina
  11. cornflower
    an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
  12. cyan
    of a bluish shade of green
  13. dark blue
    a dark shade of blue
  14. denim
    a coarse durable cotton fabric used to make jeans
  15. electric
    using or providing the flow of charge through a conductor
  16. French blue
    ultramarine pigment prepared artificially
  17. French ultramarine
    ultramarine pigment prepared artificially
  18. glaucous
    having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants
  19. greenish blue
    a shade of blue tinged with green
  20. indigo
    a blue-violet color
  21. iris
    a plant with bright flowers composed of three petals
  22. lazuline
    a light shade of blue
  23. midnight
    12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
  24. navy
    a dark shade of blue
  25. navy blue
    a dark shade of blue
  26. ocean
    a large body of water that is part of the hydrosphere
  27. peacock blue
    a shade of blue tinged with green
  28. periwinkle
    chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers
  29. powder blue
    a pale blue color with grey in it
  30. Prussian blue
    a dark greenish-blue color
  31. purplish blue
    a shade of blue tinged with purple
  32. reddish blue
    a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum
  33. royal blue
    a shade of blue tinged with purple
  34. sapphire
    a precious transparent stone that is typically a rich blue
  35. sky
    the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth
  36. steel blue
    a greyish blue color
  37. teal
    a blue-green color or pigment
  38. turquoise
    a shade of blue tinged with green
  39. ultramarine
    a vivid blue to purple-blue color
Created on Thu Aug 03 16:35:26 EDT 2023 (updated Mon Oct 02 12:54:06 EDT 2023)

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